rathole
Example Sentences
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The states would be motivated to determine the legitimacy of the payments before the money disappears down the fraud rathole.
“Where have you led us, dwarf? My horse does not leave my side. Climb into this rathole, the rest of you. I shall guard Islimach myself.”
From Literature
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee called it a “rathole.”
From Washington Post
“I want to stop throwing money down that particular rathole,” he said at a Brookings Institution event earlier this month.
From Washington Times
According to the DPIC, when Virginia goes, the death penalty will be dead in a majority of states, whether by legislative action, state court order or executive refusal to continue shoveling money down the rathole.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
