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go down the drain VB

go down the drain POL

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Conversely, functional items going down the path of attrition leave behind functional gaps, triggering a drag chain effect on surrounding functionally salient lexical items.
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The aquifer layer would be perched on top of another layer that prevents water from going down (in geological terms it would be called impermeable).
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However, no staircase is seen going down to the previous floor.
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The center of the mezzanine also has a bank of turnstiles, two exit-only turnstiles, and two staircases going down to each platform.
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There is also the phrase, going down the hawse pipe which is an officer who can not find a ship's billet and signs on as an ordinary seaman or wiper.
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Because water in an aquifer is prevented from going down, the only direction the trapped water can flow is horizontally.
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There is a higher chance that the circuit-breaker mechanism will kick in when the markets are going down rather than up.
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Do you not think he wanted to make sure no other guy could get ahold of her, because he knew he was going down?
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Loaded wagons were run in pairs down a self-acting inclined plane railway (two loaded wagons going down hauled another two emptied ones up).
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In a reconstructed courtyard there are marble plaques at specific points and an entrance going down to the morgue from the street.
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