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go to waste
Idioms and Phrases
Fail to be used or taken advantage of. For example, I hate to see such talent go to waste , or We bought so much food that some will be going to waste . [c. 1500]Example Sentences
"Where there wasn’t enough fly agaric, they wouldn’t let pee go to waste."
“Where there wasn’t enough fly agaric, they wouldn’t let pee go to waste,” said Vishnevsky.
Experts and officials told CBS the water could not flow to Los Angeles and would likely go to waste.
While the idea is simple — rescue food that would otherwise go to waste — that work takes different forms around the world.
Los Angeles-area landlords appear determined not to let a disaster go to waste, with tenant rights organizations and displaced people searching for shelter reporting that the prices for apartment rentals and hotels have increased by as much as 100 percent since wildfires engulfed sections of the city.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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