The word
"rathole" refers to a small, dark, and narrow hole or passage, often used as a hiding place or a poorly maintained and unorganized area.
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But you know the old saw: Build a
better rathole and rich men will beat a path to your door to throw money down it.
That someone so gifted would toss his life down a
twisted rathole is another strange thing re the strange case of AAR Contractor.
It was almost two in the morning, and I'd just emerged, blinking and dazed, from an hour lost to some
online rathole.
His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused by war; and Poland, where he followed so -
called rathole miners into illegal coal pits.
The point is that the nation has received zero value from trillions in quantitative easing, and so if even 10 % of the 130 million households do something useful with their $ 10,000 in cash then that would be one heck of a lot more than we've gotten from the trillions thrown down
the rathole of a venal, corrupted, insolvent banking sector.
Understanding and focusing on the «why» allows you to avoid side issues and
ratholes that might otherwise obscure the situation.
More to the point, a Republican Party which can't muster the Rods and the Richards of the world into a functional coalition capable of winning elections and governing well is a Republican Party headed for
the rathole.
There are plenty of Paturkey hacks that Spitz failed to get and they found
themselves ratholes in the agencies and departments.
The other $ 190 million are going to be money poured down
a rathole.»
, seem quite content to follow BMW down
this rathole (see Honda Accord Crosstour and Acura ZDX, about whose ugliness I could write a book).
It's just not worth diving down
the rathole one more time.
The Dollars go right down
the rathole into the UN maze of tyrants and despots and eventually funds the ISIS Global Climate Change initiative.
There is no justification for continuing to pour money into
this rathole organization.