의미: fritterfrit·ter1 vt. 1 <시간·돈·정력 등을> (조금씩) 쓸데없는 일에 쓰다[낭비하다] 《away》 ▶ 《fritter+목+부》 fritter away one’s money 돈을 조금씩 다 써버리다 2 《드물게》 잘게 부수다, 갈기갈기 찢다 ━ vi. 1 점점 줄어들다, 감소하다; 퇴화하다 《away》 ▶ 《fritter+부》 watch one’s fortune fritter away …의 재산이 점차 줄어드는 것을 보다 2 조각나다, 부서지다 fritter·er n.
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fritter sth away
Idiom(s): fritter sth away
Theme: WASTE
to waste something little by little, especially time or money. (Folksy.) • Don't stand around and fritter the whole day away. • Stop frittering away my hard-earned money!
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v., informal To waste foolishly. Paul failed history because he fooled away his time instead of studying.The man won a lot of money, but he soon frittered it away and was poor again.
fritter away
fritter away Squander or waste little by little; wear down gradually. For example, She frittered away her salary on odds and ends and saved nothing. This expression was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Dunciad (1728): “How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away.”
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