plughole
Britishnoun
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But in the ocean, Watson says, that sinking is not a simple plughole.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"And in the name of what? In the name of ratings and clicks. We're in danger of going down a very nasty plughole here."
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
He used Hershey’s chocolate syrup for the blood which swirled down the plughole, because it looked just right in black and white.
From Economist ● Nov. 2, 2017
Photograph: Moviestore/Rex Just five years after the ropey Spider-Man 3 crawled out of the multiplex plughole in 2007, starring an increasingly jaded and malign-looking Tobey Maguire, the reset button has been pressed.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2012
It’s like water whirling down a plughole: in the northern hemisphere it whooshes anti-clockwise, in the south, clockwise.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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