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spend money like water

verb as in lavish

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In addition to being devoted to his faith, he was a scholarship student at a university where half the students can afford $45,000 in tuition and fees without recourse to financial aid and where, he said, many tend to “spend money like water.”

"Supposing, for the sake of argument, that Miss Arnott is guilty, and that Jim Baker knows it, that, from one point of view, would be a sufficient reason why she should spend money like water in his defence, and I should be placed in a very awkward situation."

He will spend money like water; he will travel fast and far; he will do almost anything, but he knows no certain cure.

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."

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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