squander away

squander away

To use up or fail to take advantage of some resource in a wasteful, frivolous, or negligent manner. A noun or pronoun can be used between "squander" and "away." I'm not about to lend you any more cash—you already squandered the $100 away that I gave you! In my old age, I look back on my life and bemoan squandering away my youth. It makes me sad to think of her squandering her potential away in some dead-end office job.
See also: away, squander
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

squander something away

to waste something; to use up something valuable wastefully. Where is all the money I gave you last month? Did you squander it all away? Frank squandered away all his assets.
See also: away, squander
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • angle
  • angling
  • not do (someone or oneself) any favors
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • arrange for
  • arrange for some time
  • arrange some music for
  • ask back
References in classic literature
'No matter; I should like it better if it were a boy--only that its father will leave it no inheritance that he can possibly squander away. What pleasure can I have in seeing a girl grow up to eclipse me, and enjoy those pleasures that I am for ever debarred from?
I tell you the honest truth when I say I could squander away as many as a dozen feasts like this and never care THAT for the expense!" and I snapped my fingers.
'Among those who once had dealings with this man, gentlemen--that's from twenty to five-and-twenty years ago--there was one: a rough fox-hunting, hard-drinking gentleman, who had run through his own fortune, and wanted to squander away that of his sister: they were both orphans, and she lived with him and managed his house.
Hostility towards any country was out of his mind, because, such negative pursuits would squander away the energy and resources, of which he needed every ounce, to build Pakistan.
He slammed the BIR for "big backlogs in collecting taxes from big companies and the government could not penalize big tax evaders nor curb rampant corruption in the bureaucracy that squander away billions of taxpayers' money."
The corrupt politicians squander away precious tax-payers' money on their extravagant life styles.
Succession becomes problematic when the next generation not only squander away wealth, but also besmirch the family name.
RSS must not be allowed to monopolize things and thus squander away the votes that BJB garnered.
True, large companies typically have more resources to throw at a project, however, that also means they have more resources to squander away on misguided boondoggles.
Four home draws against the division's lesser lights, teams any title hopeful should expect to beat - West Ham, Stoke, Hull City and Fulham - have seen the Reds squander away eight points that would have given the table a very different complexion.
Unless Scotland's service industry moves into the highly competitive and technological methods of improving its tourism and to the same standards of other European countries, then it will squander away its chance to become one of the world's most attractive tourist venues
If you place bets without being knowledgeable about the game, you may squander away all of your hard-earned financial resources.
To let society tell it, Coy Pugh was fated to become a habitual criminal, destined to squander away his life spinning through the penal system's revolving doors.