rathole
[ rat-hohl ]
Idioms about rathole
down the rathole, for a worthless purpose or purposes: seeing your inheritance disappear down the rathole.
Origin of rathole
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How to use rathole in a sentence
I certainly do, but I think they’ve gone down that same rathole in Colorado and in Montana and other places.
The platform was in a warehouse which, like the rest of the structures in rathole, was a half-buried dome.
Wind | Charles Louis FontenayHe knew every rathole of the system, with the same intimacy the rats knew them.
Shock Treatment | Stanley MullenHe had seven hours to go and he was still at least 16 kilometers from rathole.
Wind | Charles Louis FontenayThere was nothing to do but turn back to rathole and see if some other way could not be found.
Wind | Charles Louis Fontenay
You will have to take a groundcar to rathole and bring the fellow back.
Wind | Charles Louis Fontenay
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