spend money like water

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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 must look to men who can spend money like water, men who have no vocation or calling which will bring them in the sums which they spend.

From The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Hunt, Henry M.

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

Promise them what they will; the Syssite will spend money like water to carry its object.

From The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)