channel (something) off
channel (something) off
1. To remove or redirect something, usually a liquid, through a channel. You move things to higher ground while I try to channel some of this water off.
2. To squander resources, such as money or time. Look, the company won't give us any more money for this initiative if those guys keep channeling it off.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
channel something off
1. Lit. to drain off water or some other liquid through a channel. The front yard is flooded, and we will have to channel the water off. Let's channel off the water before it gets too deep.
2. Fig. to drain off or waste energy, money, effort, etc. Unemployment channeled their resources off. The war channeled off most of the resources of the country.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- channel off
- channeling
- channel (something) in(to) (something)
- channel in
- same
- stay tuned
- change the channel
- not want to know
- submerge (someone or something) in (something)
- submerged