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
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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
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
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
He will spend money like water; he will travel fast and far; he will do almost anything, but he knows no certain cure.
From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by Blaikie, William Garden