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fritter away |
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fritter away Verb to waste: he did not fritter away his energy on trivialities [obsolete fitter to break into small pieces]
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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. Don't fritter away the little strength you have left. "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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