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单词 a bottomless pit
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a bottomless pit

idiom
something thatrequiresa lot ofmoneyto bespenton it, which is never enoughhoweverlargetheamount:
Thewarhadbecomeabottomlesspit.
Helaunchedascathingattackon theorganization,brandingit a "bottomlesspit" fortaxpayers'money.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing too much
  • bottomless
  • capital intensive
  • cheap
  • cheap at half the priceidiom
  • cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
  • costsomeonea pretty pennyidiom
  • costsomeonedearidiom
  • costliness
  • daylight robbery
  • dear
  • exorbitant
  • gouge
  • outprice
  • pretty
  • price fixing
  • pricesomeoneout
  • priceyourselfout of the marketidiom
  • prohibitive
  • prohibitively
  • sight
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bottomless pit
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˌbɒt.əm.ləs ˈpɪt/us
/ˌbɑː.t̬əm.ləs ˈpɪt/
something thatseemsto have nolimits, or asituationthat will never end:
We'll bepouringmoneyinto abottomlesspitif wetrytokeepthatfactoryopen.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
  • a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
  • a rough rideidiom
  • abyss
  • adversity
  • atyourworstidiom
  • Augean
  • bad hair day
  • emergence
  • epidemic
  • genie
  • hardness
  • have a bumpy rideidiom
  • havesomeoneover a barrelidiom
  • rabbit hole
  • reversal
  • rigour
  • rollercoaster
  • the Augean Stablesidiom
  • the hard wayidiom
  • vortex
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(Definition ofa bottomless pitfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofa bottomless pit

a bottomless pit
Brothers were locked in abottomlesspitof death.
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Putting money into abottomlesspitat will without accompanying measures can be dangerous.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This is very important because many people, when they write, feel that their letters disappear into somebottomlesspitand nobody ever finds them again.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They know that there is not abottomlesspit.
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I appreciate how much more it would cost if those over 65 were included—there is nobottomlesspit.
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It would, therefore, not be resented nearly so much as taxes which seem to disappear into abottomlesspit.
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We shall never have abottomlesspitupon which to draw.
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But many of us feel that this is pouring money into abottomlesspitand that it will produce no good results.
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They have poured money and arms into that country—into abottomlesspit.
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There is not abottomlesspitfrom which we can draw resources to feed the nations of the world for ever and ever.
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What worries me is that there is not abottomlesspitof cash.
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Indeed, it is a case not so much of painting the lily as of deepening thebottomlesspit.
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We all know that thebottomlesspitis not there and never has been.
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I emphasise the point that the prawn fishery is not abottomlesspit.
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They speak as if the market is a mysterious,bottomlesspitinto which one's hand is dipped and the necessary funds for investment are produced.
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