down the drain
(idiomatic) wasted or irretrievable.
And since nearly three months, these temporary sheds have been lying empty, with no one using them-thus resulting in tax-payers money going down the drain, on a project not put into use. Source: Internet
At this point I’m mostly just hoping the money we put down for flights doesn’t go down the drain — I know Hutchinson is working on getting that back for us.” Source: Internet
All that effort down the drain, literally. Source: Internet
And my very lucrative medical illustration business went down the drain. Source: Internet
On June 16, 1962, The Saturday Evening Post ran an article by Bill Davidson with the headline "Six million dollars down the drain: the mutiny of Marlon Brando". Source: Internet
I will keep mentioning these greedy shortsighted imbeciles like Mushimba, Lazy Lungu and Co. as that is money they have poured down the drain…EA is not having it easy as well as alot of its lucrative routes are down. Source: Internet