play ducks and drakes with money
1play ducks and drakes with — or make ducks and drakes of phrasal to use recklessly ; squander < played ducks and drakes with his money > …
2play ducks and drakes with — waste money, squander money …
3ducks and drakes — noun a) A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface. A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake …
4waste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Gradual loss or decay Nouns 1. waste, wastage; dissipation; dispersion; ebb; leakage, loss; wear and tear; extravagance, wastefulness, prodigality, conspicuous consumption; waste of time; jeunesse dorée; …
5waste — v 1. squander, fritter away, fool away, dissipate, lose, misuse, misspend; expend, consume, use up, drain, exhaust, deplete; throw away, burn up, run through, go through, Sl. blow; disperse, scatter, spill, muddle away; splurge, lavish, play the… …
6squander — v misspend, misuse, waste, dissipate, go or run through, Sl. blow; (all of time) kill, fritter or fool away, lose; spend recklessly, play ducks and drakes with, throw away, burn up, Sl. shoot one s wad, pour down the drain, throw good money after …
