down the drain
Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Synonym of down the toilet#English|down the toilet: wasted or irretrievable.
    • 1997, Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet
      Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
      Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.



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