Sentences with phrase «down the drain at»

Consider the amount of time and money that is thrown down the drain at religion.

If you'd literallly throw $ 20 - $ 40 down the drain at this point to avoid reusing the oil, you have more cash to burn than most people.

In fact, almost none of the red dye seems to go down the drain at all!

This milk has been poured into fields, manure lagoons, and animal feed, or down the drain at processing plants.

Not exact matches

By contrast, a company that spends $ 300 to acquire a subscriber who spends $ 20 a month and cancels his subscription at the end of the year is pouring its money down the drain.

It wants a straight, perfectly positioned, well - drilled drain hole right down the identified sweet spot of the reservoir being targeted, one that, when completed, will yield the maximum amount of oil over its economic life at the lowest possible cost.

In traditions that believe in the real presence of Christ, the priest or pastor may get tipsy from drinking the consecrated wine that is left over at the end of the service, since the blood of Christ can not just be poured down the drain.

At least the hardcore atheists understood that if we are truly sincere in our atheism, the whole web of meanings and values that have clustered around the idea of God in Western culture has to go down the drain along with its organizing center.

(There is a legendary story, now uncheckable, that in the high sixties, the Marxist student elite at Oxford University donated their life's blood to the Viet Cong, but it was all poured down the drain when it reached East Berlin for processing.

This is an important step, drain the potatoes and return to the same burner (turned down to warm), cover the potatoes for at least 15 minutes before mashing.

Since water is perhaps our most valuable natural resource, we employ a system that allows us to reuse all the Creamery water at the Creamery and Straus Dairy Farm instead of letting all the water go down the drain.

Another area that Conte will need to look at is his wing - back positions, as with busier fixture schedules, the likes of Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso will need to be rotated to stay fresh as running up and down the flanks two or three times a week will drain them.

However, with sit - at - home teams that and teams that would rather just allow you have all the freedom in any other area of the pitch but their 18 yard box, all the fluidity in games goes down the drain.

Most track presidents in this country roll their eyeballs toward heaven at the smallest hint that they, like their clients, might enjoy throwing a bob down the drain now and then.

Last Saturday, 24 hours before the game that would stop Green Bay's slide or send the Packers» season down the drain, the man who's started more consecutive games at quarterback than any other had no idea what his immediate or long - term future held.

The way I feel at the moment, the money would be better spent watching his career go down the drain for a year.

At the moment this club is being managed down the nearest drain.

Say the man who moved Rams from St.Louis to the Los Angeles... it is like he moved Arsenal from London to the Manchester... This man does nt care about anything his main goal is the money... It is called cultural theft, you buy something and say positiv things, pople gets excided but what he does is selling everything worth at that (club) and afterwards he let it go down the drain...

So that's where some of the # 50 million went — it certainly wasn't down the drain, as the United fans» sarcastic song goes, laughing at those who wrote him off so soon.

It's happened time and again down the years to those of us who have lived on the «dark side» for so long but it has been there that we receive heart wrenching, emotionally draining and totally wonderful football life experience unparalleled at any other club

I had milk at first after her birth, but then it shut down (likely because my ducts were not all attached, so I had engorged areas that could not drain, which sent a message to my body to stop producing milk, since it wasn't being used).

At some merciful juncture my midwife arrived and wheeled me into L & D. All my dreams of squatting on the birthball, chanting mantras of calm blue ocean, while being massaged with essential oils went the down the drain.

The Liberals are the dirtiest fighters at street level and if you had heard Chris Huhne shouting down Humphrys this morning on the Today programme for daring to suggest that Clegg was just as much a political insider as the other two, which he is, except worse as he slithered up the Brussels gravy drain, you would have heard their nasty side in the raw.

There goes down the drain your social life at graduate school.

One of the cool things about this pool is when it's time to take it down at the end of the season, they made it really easy to drain out the water.

At one morgue, since shuttered, doctors were collecting blood, bile and other bodily fluids in 5 - gallon buckets and pumping them back into corpses because a septic system had collapsed, making it impossible to wash the fluids down the drain.

Should this happen, the H. erectus idea would go down the drain, and we would be looking at a possibility of another, yet unknown, migration of humans out of Africa perhaps as early as 2 million years ago.

For theorists tinkering with computer models, the trouble lies in getting a massive amount of gas to pile up long enough to collapse all at once, into a vortex that feeds a nascent black hole like water down a sink drain.

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of galaxies, and when those galaxies collide, eventually their supermassive black holes will first slowly circle each other spiraling inward like water down a drain, then eventually merge as well.

Rest the mason jar upside down at an angle on a sprouting jar holder or inside a bowl so that any remaining water can drain.

It saved me when my hubby was out of town and the drain in our kitchen clogged thanks to the three - year - old's attempt at dishes that resulted in her pouring a bowl of butter and melted olive oil down the drain.

If you fail to use your membership at all, it's money down the drain.

We have one of those hair catcher things that cover our drain so no flakes will ever go down it (you can pick one up at the drugstore for cheap).

It's the worst feeling in the world: Looking down at the shower drain and seeing clumps of hair.

I have been working out since I was 15 but all the while I have only been using calisthenics.I don't go to gyms as it is filled with people quite often and it is hard to get a spot to train there.I did gain quite a bit in the beginning but due to college life which began around 2 years ago my gains are kinda low to non-existent because I kinda slowed down on my workouts and intensity.The reason for this is workouts tend to drain me the whole day and makes me sleepy early at night which is the time I usually use to study.

To help move all the lymph into the terminus (where lymph drains), I begin at the middle of my forehead and move the tool down the face staying close to the hairline, behind the ear, and down the neck, repeating 3 - 5 times

A word for the grace notes, too: Bruno's manicure from his mother; his hound at the top of the stairs, his nail - biting grope for the lighter dropped down a drain, spliced with Guy's epic, against - the - clock tennis match, which must be completed before Bruno plants it as incriminating evidence.

Before H.G. Lewis was bathing in cheap stage blood and flipping stomachs at drive - ins everywhere and the same year that Alfred Hitchcock ran chocolate sauce down the drain while a sort - of nude Janet Leigh screamed, there was director Sidney (BURN WITCH BURN) Hayers» wonderfully pulpy and surprisingly sadistic CIRCUS OF HORRORS, a Grand Guignol shocker with a campy cruel streak that was far ahead of its time.

[Deadline] • Gregory Ellwood thinks Melissa Leo flushed her chances at an Oscar down the drain.

Truth be told, Joe was not much use to himself or anyone else on the outside, but now that he has time to reflect, he turns over a new leaf, pouring the booze down the drain, working out to the suggestive fitness programs on television, and plotting his escape, one scrape at a time.

It's an insider's look at greed, hubris and the willingness of an elite few to flush the entire economy down the drain, so long as they are the ones who get to decide when.

Somebody at Universal has been mesmerized enough, however, to flush down the drain more money than most of us will ever see in our bank statements, on a piece of trash called Repo Man... It stinks from here to Pasadena.»

«The Down the Drain project was originally developed during a two - week summer course held at SIT in 1996,» Baron says.

«Mark's Mob» followed him at all times, and then there was the visibly drained Hulkenberg, fresh off a red - eye flight after finishing eighth at the Canadian Grand Prix, who wanted nothing more than to sit down.

will cause the battery to drain down especially at night with the headlights on and the air running etc..

He hadn't been a success at anything save pouring gin down the drain, and now, at twenty - seven years of age, he felt branded by failure.

But even if the battery is charging now, I still have to put the powerswitch on (that drains more energy but can't charge it otherwise...) and use the AC adaptor and wait for 15 hours to have it charge... no way to know if the battery is fully or partially charge since I get a Icon battery with 4 bars or no bars at all and when it begin flashing, it last 5 minutes and shut down.

One thing you might look at is the number of applications (apps) that are running before you contact the customer service department: for each app that is running, in addition to decreasing your Fire's memory and dragging down the speed, if you have numerous apps running the battery will really start to drain (that's true for a laptop computer running on the battery, smartphone, etc.).

For instance, you'll typically find that scheduled personal property coverage covers an item if it's lost — left behind at a hotel, or dropped down a drain, for example — which a typical renters insurance policy may not cover.

Over the lifetime of a car loan (which is getting longer all the time) a car loan at that rate would see you basically throwing a few thousand dollars or more down the drain every year.