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Quiz: "drain" or "train"?

29.09.2010
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The correct answer is: drain

"You may think the investment would be money down the drain, but I disagree." 

If you throw (or, in colloquial English, "chuck") money down the drain, you are wasting it. This is an informal idiomatic expression that is often used to criticize spending plans — or taxes.

throw money down the drain = Geld zum Fenster hinauswerfen

drain = Abfluss(rohr)

 

 

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