throw good money after bad
1throw good money after bad — informal phrase to continue spending money on something such as a business or a project that is going to fail Thesaurus: to do business and relating to doing businesshyponym closing a business and ceasing to operate a businesssynonym Main entry:… …
2throw good money after bad — DISAPPROVING ► to waste money by continuing to invest in something that has already cost a lot and is unlikely to be a success: »The government may be throwing good money after bad by using taxpayers money to bail out the failing banks. Main… …
3throw good money after bad — ► throw good money after bad incur further loss in a hopeless attempt to recoup a previous loss. Main Entry: ↑throw …
4throw good money after bad — Someone who spends additional money on something that was already considered a bad investment is said to throw good money after bad. Buying a second hand computer and then spending money to have it repaired is throwing good money after… …
5throw good money after bad — to spend more and more money on something that will never be successful. Investors in the project began to pull out as they realised they were simply throwing good money after bad …
6throw good money after bad — spend more on a failure, repair a poor product If we fix that TV again, we ll be throwing good money after bad …
7throw good money after bad — incur further loss in a hopeless attempt to recoup a previous loss. → throw …
8throw good money after bad — informal to continue spending money on something such as a business or a project that is going to fail …
9throw good moneyafter bad — Someone who spends additional money on something that was already considered a bad investment is said to throw good money after bad. Buying a second hand computer and then spending money to have it repaired is throwing good money after… …
10throw — [θrəʊ ǁ θroʊ] verb threw PASTTENSE [θruː] thrown PASTPART [θrəʊn ǁ θroʊn] [transitive] 1. throw money at to try to solve a problem by spending a lot of money, without really thinking about the problem: • There is no point throwing money at the… …