a bottomless pit

a bottomless pit

1. A person who is always hungry. Her teenage son was like a bottomless pit as he devoured every last bit of food in the house.
2. A situation that requires a seemingly endless amount of money or resources. With all the money and time we've sunk into repairs for the roof, windows, and foundation, this house has become a bottomless pit.
3. The cause or source of something, typically something difficult or problematic. Everything is going wrong lately, like challenges are coming from a bottomless pit or something.
See also: bottomless, pit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a bottomless ˈpit (of something)

a thing or situation which seems to have no limits or seems never to end: There isn’t a bottomless pit of money for public spending. the bottomless pit of his sorrow
See also: bottomless, pit
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

bottomless pit

1. n. a very hungry person. The guy is a bottomless pit. There isn’t enough food in town to fill him up.
2. n. an endless source of something, usually something troublesome. Our problems come from a bottomless pit. There is just no end to them.
See also: bottomless, pit
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

bottomless pit, the

Hell; also, something or someone that uses up all one’s energy or resources. The expression appears several times in the Bible, most notably in the Book of Revelation (“and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit,” 9:1; “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit,” 20:1). In the eighteenth century, the term was humorously used for the English statesman William Pitt the younger (1759– 1806), who was very thin, and it still is jocularly used for a seemingly insatiable individual of huge appetite.
See also: bottomless
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • bottomless
  • bottomless pit
  • bottomless pit, the
  • pit
  • growing youth has a wolf in his belly
  • A growing youth has a wolf in his belly
  • every last
  • every last...
  • go hungry
  • be off (one's) food
References in classic literature
"It's very apt to set him off with the same energy in a much worse direction," answered Fisher; "a pretty endless sort of direction, a bottomless pit as deep as the bottomless well."
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Although the boy had told me that it was but ten feet to the floor below I experienced the same thrills as though I were hanging above a bottomless pit. Then I released my hold and dropped--four feet to a soft cushion of sand.
The Gods of Mars
These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
Gullivers Travels
The bay was like a bottomless pit of intense light.
Tales of Unrest
Into what a bottomless pit has my lust after gold plunged me.
Arabian Nights
We all know the NHS isn't a bottomless pit and can't afford everything for everyone, sans social revolution.
Aid is richly deserved; ANNE DIAMOND Guest columnist
He said: "People need to understand in cases of this sort that benefits do not come from a bottomless pit - they are there for the truly needy.
Mum jailed for 'fleecing the state' out of PS70,000
Far-reaching changes are needed to keep the National Health Service free at the point of delivery and this means users have to be more mindful of the way they use the service, and those who work in the service must realise that taxpayer-funding is not a bottomless pit.
NHS needs to be reformed
NURSING LEADERS have variously described Budget 2017, delivered last month, as "completely lacking in delivering primary health care funding", "lacking investment in the workforce" and "pouring money into a bottomless pit".
Budget offers little to nurses
At a time when the NHS has received record funding, we must all recognise that there is not a bottomless pit of money and those working in the service must work smarter and those using the service must be more mindful of how they use the service.
Pull together for our NHS; Letters
While accepting that public funds are not a bottomless pit, we were deeply touched by the plight of Anne Maclean-Chang.
No price on hope; RECORD View
He said: "I don't know if the general public thinks we are a government body receiving subsidies and able to pay our employees from a bottomless pit of money.
Taxi drivers welcome new fares increase
Judge Geraint Walters told her at Caernarfon crown court that such cash didn't come from "a bottomless pit" and was intended for the needy.
Woman fiddled benefits
The penny finally dropped that I wasn't a bottomless pit of cash and I had to work hard to earn money.
YOU SAY; DEAR COLEEN; The UK's most straight-talking problems page
In most cases this includes repayment of the original sum, plus interest, but I feel once you start this process of borrowing, you are simply digging yourself into a bottomless pit, as debt will always haunt you.
Debt, the bottomless pit