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fritter away
Idioms and Phrases
Squander or waste little by little; wear down gradually. For example, She frittered away her salary on odds and ends and saved nothing . This expression was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Dunciad (1728): “How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away.”Example Sentences
In reality, it was money "frittered away" by their daughter.
If this adds a hint of mitigation for England's failure to secure a second successive 3-0 clean sweep, there are few excuses for the way the hosts frittered away this Test.
England frittered away wickets and shipped easy runs on Saturday.
Ray plainly resents Bankman-Fried for trying to blame the bankruptcy team for frittering away FTX’s value and his claim that he tried to help Ray restructure the company but was rebuffed.
Ravichandran Ashwin's sad withdrawal left India without a key man, yet somehow England frittered away their golden opportunity in a blur of sloppy shots and brain fades.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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