fritter away

But in recent years, that shame has started to fritter away - at least in some quarters.

Beagle and Barker said they frittered away two hours at Pershing Square a few blocks away until around 4 p.m.

A two-under 34 on the front nine failed to do that and when McIlroy frittered away two shots on the 10th, it was clear the championship was beyond his reach.

Sam Burns and Adam Scott had frittered away their overnight advantage.

Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.”