Translations for „plughole“ in the English » German Dictionary

ˈplug·hole N

plughole

Abfluss m

Phrases:

to go down the plughole

den Bach runtergehen inf

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to go down the plughole

den Bach runtergehen inf

to go down the drain [or toilet] [or tube[s]] inf, to go down the plughole, [or Brit also pan], [or Aus gurgler] inf

für die Katz sein sl

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

My generation is the first that can grow old with a sense that we're not sliding down the plughole in a big hurry.

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A comforting thought when you next spot one crawling out of the plughole.

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Once used, these tiny pieces of plastic are washed down the shower or basin plughole and into our wastewater pipes.

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Does water go down the plughole clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the southern?

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It's almost like water going down a plughole.

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Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a plughole.

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He was accustomed to making clients billions, yet here he was watching hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of yuan options sink down the plughole.

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It is hard to watch something in which you have invested considerable time and resources that going down the plughole.

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Round and round and round... and down the plughole.

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As the air converges on the pole and then sinks, it creates a vortex much like that found above the plughole of a bath.

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