"Down the drain" nghĩa là gì?
'Down the drain' có từ drain là cống, rãnh, mương, máng -> trôi xuống cống -> cụm từ này nghĩa là lãng phí, phí phạm (gone; wasted).
Ví dụ
Don't let your holiday dinner go down the drain.
Punjab: Rs 1700 cr down the drain in paddy procurement.
Around Rs 2 crore of taxpayers' money provisioned by the civic body for the Smart City initiative might go down the drain after the NCP-ruled general body rejected the proposal on Tuesday.
About RM100,000 and some valuable Olympic ranking points have gone down the drain with the quarter-final exit of mixed doubles Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying in the US Grand Prix badminton tournament.
Phạm Hạnh
Bài trước: "Down and out" nghĩa là gì?
Tags: phrase
Post a Comment