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| Concept: | Prodigality. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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-nouns
prodigality, prodigence; unthriftiness, waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering; malversation., prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel, squanderer, locust; high roller [U.S.].
-verbs
be prodigal; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.
-adjectives
prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed (liberal) [more]., penny wise and pound foolish.
-adverbs
with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket.
-phrases
amor nummi [Latin]; facile largiri de alieno; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [German]; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent [French]; "spendthrift alike of money and of wit" [Cowper]; "squandering wealth was his peculiar art" [Dryden].
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| Antonyms: | parsimony |
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