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plughole noun ▶ go down the plughole to become lost; to go to waste; to fail UK, 1973 A variation of DOWNTHEDRAIN.- [diary entry 20th January 1997] If we all go anti-European we’ll go glug-glug down the plughole. — Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code, p. 455, 1999
- When Packet of Three was slowly going down the comedy plughole, the Perrier Award turned up and saved my comedy bacon. — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 340, 2001
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