Translations for „plughole“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

plughole N

plughole

odpływ m (wanny, umywalki)

Phrases:

to go down the plughole efforts

iść [perf pójść] na marne

to go down the plughole business

splajtować

plughole N

User Entry

plughole MIN

otwór strzałowy m

Usage examples with plughole

to go down the plughole efforts

iść [perf pójść] na marne

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I think most of the money disappeared down the plughole.

www.independent.co.uk

As many as 100,000 can be flushed down the plughole after a single shower.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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

www.dailymail.co.uk

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

www.irishexaminer.com

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

www.telegraph.co.uk

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.

www.themalaymailonline.com

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

www.listener.co.nz

The number one bathroom irritability was a tie between finding hair in the plughole and urine on the toilet seat.

www.3news.co.nz

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

www.radiotimes.com

How clean you feel after your first shower, watching the grubby brown water disappear down the plughole.

www.cosmopolitan.co.uk