spend money like water

Also, Henry spent money like water, and never seemed to have any difficulty in getting credit.

Gordon Brown was spending money like water, offering loans he could never pay etc.

Women were spending money like water; she could see that in every elegant shop she passed.

The elder Trent had spent money like water.

Letting us run along like idiots, spending money like water!"

It isn't I who's spending money like water.

Keller spends money like water for the best talent on the stage to support his actress wife and hide her shortcomings.

As soon as he got into the White House he began spending money like water.

"I cannot, I have spent money like water!

Captain Aron, reasonably prudent about cash outlays until now, suddenly was spending money like water.

"If you must know," Mrs. Smith added in a confidential tone, "we're spending money like water."

She spends money like water.

"Mabel Such says Anthony's spending money like water.

"They spend money like water.

They're spending money like water."

Metaphorically, this can mean "Throw away money like dirt" or "Spend money like water".

"In and out of every boozer in Ambleside shooting off his big mouth and spending money like water."

He also told them-and his bank manager-that Lady Lucan had been "spending money like water".

"It won't do, you know, Ebenezer," said Marley, "All this high living, spending money like water.

"They are spending money like water," said Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute.

CHAPTER 35 Even spending money like water, it took three days to get the "Evening Bird" ready for space again.

He is perfectly capable of hiring privateers, whatever they cost: he would spend money like water, he would move heaven and earth to get hold of me.

Cluvonus is in no condition to name a successor, and Annias of Cimmura is spending money like water to gain the throne.'

And then what with Mr. Fortescue being so peculiar and so bad tempered, flashing out in these terrible rages, spending money like water backing wildcat schemes.

Berlin is a pauper after years of spending money like water on maintaining its superficially united dualities: three opera houses, three airports, two zoos, two television towers and scores of museums.