Other attractive babies, too, could disappear down theplugholewith the mutual bathwater.
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If we had a recovery of any scale, the balance of payments would go right down theplughole.
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The school has been wrecked, teacher morale has gone down theplugholeand children are expected to study on a building site.
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Why should they be washed down theplugholewith the rest of the bathwater?
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He said that as though the £16 million would be wasted and would disappear down theplughole.
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But if there are two plugholes in a bath it is no use stopping up one without stopping up the other.
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One industry after another has gone down theplughole.
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When we finish with them, presumably they can be flushed down the lavatory or put down theplughole, it matters not.
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If there is no home market, these firms will go down theplugholeas well.
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In seeking to improve the quality of the bathwater we have put the baby well and truly down theplughole.
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The road race is aplugholedown which ratepayers' and poll tax payers' money will be poured unless it is stopped.
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It is simply a revenueplughole.
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That principle has gone down theplughole.
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These uncontrolled spillway devices are also called "morning glory", "plughole", "glory hole" or "bell-mouth" spillways.
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