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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The house was a real—I won't curse on the podcast, but, you know, a rathole, let's say.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2018

We need to consider capturing and converting carbon by a means that doesn’t mean injecting in a rathole hoping it won’t escape.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2016

“I’m sure Jeff never imagined that he would recapture all the equity that was drained into the rathole, but he was going to do his best,” Viebranz says.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 24, 2014

My mother placed a portion of it in a small bowl and left it overnight in a corner where there was a rathole.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane