To boondoggle and other expressions related to wasting money
Dear users!
In my mother tongue, there's an expression that literally translates into to throw money in the mud and is used when someone spends money on something that is either useless or brings no desired effect. We'd use it if, for instance, you bought a plane ticket and then on the day of the flight missed the flight because you didn't bother to go to the airport early enough.
Is there a similar expression in English? I've found the following:
1) to boondoggle (do you ever use it?)
2) to throw money down the drain
3) to throw good money after bad (not sure why this idiom is like this)
Thanks
Top answer
Perfect Stranger 2) to throw money down the drain This is the closest to your original. The other two aren't even close to the meaning you describe. com/definition/us/throw_good_money_after_bad CJ
- Perfect Stranger 2) to throw money down the drain This is the closest to your original.
- The other two aren't even close to the meaning you describe.
- com/definition/us/throw_good_money_after_bad CJ
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Perfect Stranger2) to throw money down the drain
This is the closest to your original.
The other two aren't even close to the meaning you describe.
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