down the drain
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- (idiomatic) Wasted or irretrievable.
- 1997, Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, the, drain.
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