Translations for „plughole“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

plughole [ˈplʌghəʊl, Am -hoʊl] N

plughole

спускно́е [или сливно́е] отве́рстие nt

plughole

ште́псельное гнездо́ nt

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I wanted to disappear completely, get smaller and smaller and go down the plughole.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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

www.cosmopolitan.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.

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How many decades of our future prosperity will we willingly flush down that plughole before the game's up?

calgaryherald.com

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

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Of course, the water spins around the plughole first.

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

www.listener.co.nz

It all began in the 1970s, that's when everything started going down the plughole.

www.counterpunch.org

I think most of the money disappeared down the plughole.

www.independent.co.uk

Householders who pour fat down the plughole might as well be pouring money down the drain.

www.standard.co.uk