spend money like water

Example Sentences

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Says Pechman: "An excess-profits tax is an invitation to corporations to spend money like water to get out from under it �by paying huge salaries or bonuses or even making misguided investments."

From Time Magazine Archive

You may spend money like water if it pleases you—the title and the wealth for which you wedded are still yours.

From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes

This war threatens to bring utter ruin; and now that Esteban and Rosa are home they spend money like water.

From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Monohan made him spend money like water to hold his own.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

I've had to give expensive dinners and spend money like water even to get them to come here and look at the things.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles