rathole

Example Sentences

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The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee called it a “rathole.”

From Washington Post

“I want to stop throwing money down that particular rathole,” he said at a Brookings Institution event earlier this month.

From Washington Times

According to the DPIC, when Virginia goes, the death penalty will be dead in a majority of states, whether by legislative action, state court order or executive refusal to continue shoveling money down the rathole.

From Washington Post

When I try to describe the civic and cultural value of architecture, I sometimes contrast entering Grand Central, the city’s great gateway, with the experience of arriving at the rathole that is Penn Station.

From New York Times

In fact, Trump would be far wealthier today if he had invested his inherited fortune in an index fund and walked away, instead of tossing it down ratholes of his own making.

From Washington Post