Sentences with phrase «year down the drain»

That's almost $ 15,000 in interest over the life of the loan, more than $ 1,000 per year down the drain.

They created a buisness model that can not really support it, 1 big flop is like 25 % of their projected revenue for the year down the drain (give or take, depending on the publisher.)

Another year down the drain: From pee - powered generators to pigeons that shit soap, it's been quite a year for toilet - related stories.

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.

«I bet that the Republicans follow the short - term tradition of forgoing debate and simply voting to disapprove the rule, dumping years of work down the drain because an industry lobbyist asked them to.»

Four years of fundraisers and contributions from the congregation are down the drain after thieves stole all...

Just to play devil's advocate, we had a septic system in our last home where we lived for 7 years and I used coconut oil frequently in the bath and shower (in normal amounts — not dumping it down the drain, obviously).

My new years diet went down the drain in mid February, so I've packed on a few pounds.

Ten years 11 strikers 10 failures 100 mill down the drain.

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

Honestly don't believe there is any cause behind this, is just a short sighted and damaging way of getting AS half price for a year, oblivious to the fact that we're throwing 100 million down the drain.

Ozil one year and Sanchez another year they were bought to shut the fans up, whist Arsenal could save money, Well thanks to the Owner and Wenger the Arsenal football team is going down the drain and this year we will not get into the top 4 place, but we will still have Wenger

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

All those years of work down the drain.

Those include having the septic tank pumped by a licensed professional every two or three years, more frequently if a garbage disposal is used; not pouring harsh chemicals down household drains; and being careful not to flush diapers, paper towels and other items that can clog septic systems.

Don't let your appearance slide down the drain during the baby years.

Part of this has to do with what's called magical thinking, which is the same phenomenon that makes a two - year - old insist on only using a pink spoon (because food won't taste as good with another utensil) or results in her refusing baths since she is quite certain that children can disappear down that drain.

My neighbour and I feared that drains had ruptured some years ago because of an ungodly pong in the back garden, but it turned out an old dog fox I knew well had lain down and died in among my shrubs.

Across the state, 19 tons of microbeads are washed down the drain each year.

Schools are trying to recover from years of state aid cutbacks when many districts drew down their fund balance and reserves and cut programs, draining resources.

«It may be 20 years of work down the drain.

Every year, as waters drain down the Mississippi River basin, they accumulate 1.2 million pounds of atrazine before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

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.

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.

i could not agree more... i spent years buying items that were inexpensive just because i could by a bunch of them... i ended up giving them all away or wearing them once... money down the drain..

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.

As a result, a mistrial is a very distinct possibility, and now Garcetti really is worried about his poll numbers, foreseeing a year's worth of work and $ 6 million of taxpayer money about to be flushed down the drain.

One of my favorite movies of recent years was the 2006 Korean monster film, «The Host,» about a creature that emerges from Seoul's Han River after US military pathologists dump formaldehyde down the drain (which actually happened).

As schools everywhere begin to wind down on the school year, the worry around the summer brain drain begins.

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.

Alexis or Alexia's Book is a collection of humorous, affectionate tales about the fears and troubles kids have in their early years, such as when a new sibling arrives, falling down the drain when the water is going down the pipes, a loved one passing away, suffering bullying and mockery, the first love, etc..

I knew I wouldn't have a prayer of selling my finished manuscript to another publisher in time to get it out for the flood's 50th anniversary, which was an important publicity hook for the launch, and I wasn't about to let the three years I'd spent researching and writing it go down the drain.

Each of those leaks in isolation won't damage your finances, but all of the drips can quickly add up to big bucks — maybe even thousands of dollars a year — going down the drain.

I was foolish and paid with my debit card and probably threw thousands of dollars down the drain over the years.

I've been able to catch the market gains over the last 2 years and that big jump would definitely help with my house down payment but that would mean I drain my TFSA.

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.

After 100 years of business, some of these names are still going strong while others are going down the drain.

I spent most of last year paying as much as I could each month trying to chip away at the giant loan I have from Physical Therapy school so to hear that all my hard work just went down the drain and now my loans would be accruing more interest each month was DEVASTATING for me.

If you wait another year, you have to sell it for about $ 15,000 more than you need to get today in order to have netted the same amount, since those interest charges and HOA fees are just down the drain every month.

It's sad because we pay for our time of our life for years like 30 years is most of our life down the drain.

For several years now, however, we have witnessed an alarming brain drain and entire studios closing down as global investment has been diverted to other countries, especially in North America, which offer tax incentives.

That pissed a bunch of people off who saw 10 years of data go down the drain.

... Yet, so many more EV models will flood the market in the coming few years — and wash gasoline cars down the drain in the process.

Inconvenient Temps: Global Temperatures Have Dropped 0.5 C In The Last 12 Months — 150 years of global warming (0.7 C) going down the drain!

On climate change, it felt like 6 years of my work of organizing, writing and giving public talks got flushed down the drain since Trump intended to reverse all of President Obama's climate policies.

Seven years of college down the drain.

The 2.5 acres of living roof will absorb nearly two million gallons of rainwater per year that would otherwise go down the drain.

When you consider that 1,100 loads of laundry are started every second in America, that means over 500 million pounds of laundry detergent go down the drain and into our waterways every year.

«Eight Years of Patent Board Rulings, Down the Drain?