like a drunken sailor

In an unrestrained, feckless, and frivolous manner. Usually used in reference to spending money. He always starts spending money like a drunken sailor right after he gets paid, then struggles to cover his rent and bills toward the end of the month.

like a drunken sailor

With no restraint. A merchant seaman on shore leave with months' worth of pay in his pocket tended to make up for lost time in the drinking and “play-for-pay romance” departments. Fiscal restraint was out of the question. So did miners and cowboys when they too had a chance to go to town, but the image of a sailor prevailed. The sea shanty “What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?” suggests the same idea of a jocular attitude toward an inebriated mariner.

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释义	like a drunken sailor like a drunken sailor In an unrestrained, feckless, and frivolous manner. Usually used in reference to spending money. He always starts spending money like a drunken sailor right after he gets paid, then struggles to cover his rent and bills toward the end of the month. See also: drunken, like, sailor Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. like a drunken sailor With no restraint. A merchant seaman on shore leave with months' worth of pay in his pocket tended to make up for lost time in the drinking and “play-for-pay romance” departments. Fiscal restraint was out of the question. So did miners and cowboys when they too had a chance to go to town, but the image of a sailor prevailed. The sea shanty “What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?” suggests the same idea of a jocular attitude toward an inebriated mariner. See also: drunken, like, sailor Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also: a cash flow problem cash flow problem funny money be (right) on the money be pushed for money be pressed for money be pressed/pushed for money, space, time, etc. color of someone's money, see the get pushed for money come into (some) money References in periodicals archive In another jab at his Capitol Hill colleagues McCain said Congress spends money like a drunken sailor but he once "got an email from a guy that said as a former drunken sailor, I resent being compared to members of Congress. McCain roasts his host on comedy show But the American co-owner has refused to promise a multi-million pound assault on the transfer market by saying they won't spend money "like a drunken sailor." "The plan involves us spending money, but it will be part of a plan, not just spending like a drunken sailor. Football: THERE'S NO RAFA RIFT; Reds won't spend like 'drunken sailor I ask because he continues to show no contrition whenever he is attacked for behaving like a drunken sailor when it comes to spending taxpayers' money while carrying out dubious "official" engagements. James Whitaker: TIME FOR THE CHOPPER government has always thrown money around like a drunken sailor, but enshrining the practice as a standard weapon in our military arsenal is a little scary. The gipper and the hedgehog: how an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world She also says Charles Lowe beat her up and is squandering her fortune "like a drunken sailor". Broadway star in `no sex' divorce
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