fritter away time

They asked why a president who promised to act with such urgency and who outlined a far-reaching liberal agenda to rival those authored by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, would fritter away time courting obstructionist Republicans.

The final year too often meanders, as students load schedules with electives, allow their grades to sag and fritter away time until graduation.

In his book “Autism’s False Prophets,” pediatrician Paul Offit goes further, pointing out that unproven claims do more than fritter away time and money.

It is beyond peculiar, it is political malpractice for Republicans to fritter away time and attention on candidates who, innocent of governing experience, cannot plausibly ask that question with properly devastating effect.

People in this part of Twitter’s ecosystem are too busy to fritter away time gabbing about TV shows or tasty lattes.