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A list of phrases related to the word "drain"...
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A two
pipe
problem
Away go troubles down the drain ( Roto-Rooter advertising slogan )
Brain drain
Cherry ripe ( Cockney rhyming slang for
pipe
)
Ditch
the bitch
Down the drain
Drain the bilge
Empty
gesture
Empty
handed
Empty
headed
Empty
nest syndrome
Empty
nester
Empty
vessels make the most noise
Empty
words
Factory
outlet
( a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer )
Factory shop ( a retail
outlet
where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer )
Fat berg ( a solid mass of grease in a
sewer
)
Go down the drain
Gutter
press
Gutter
snipe
It's the
empty
can that makes the most noise
Last
ditch
effort
Laugh like a drain
Lead
pipe
cinch
Pipe
down
Pipe
dream
Pipe
up
Put that in your
pipe
and smoke it
Running on
empty
Smell the Glove ( fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal
Tap
)
The Adventure of the
Empty
House ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
empty
chair ( the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased )
These go to eleven ( line from the movie This Is Spinal
Tap
)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars ( Oscar Wilde quotation )