fritter away

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fritter away 的定义

  1. 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: “How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away.”

fritter away 近义词

v. 动词 verb

waste

更多fritter away例句

  1. Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
  2. He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer.
  3. So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.
  4. But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an ISIS connection.
  5. In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones.
  6. It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
  7. She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.
  8. If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
  9. The bear laughed and joined his companion, and the torpedo thundered away.
  10. Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.