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fritter away

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Verb1.fritter away - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
fool away, fritter, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot
ware, squander, consume, waste - spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
fritter away
verb squander, waste, run through, dissipate, misspend, idle away, fool away, spend like water I fritter my time away at coffee mornings.


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He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Don't fritter away the little strength you have left.
A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
"There is little need," said the monk, with a meaning look, "to fritter away the time in gewgaws which shall raise up the pale ghosts of hopes of early years.
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