Learn English – Idiom request for wasting time or money

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I am looking for an idiomatic expression that expresses the idea of the negative consequences for having wasted your time or your money for instance, and now that you really need them you don't have enough.

An example may be a student who has wasted time and now they don't have enough to study for their examinations.

Best Answer

Consider the colloquial idiom fritter away.

Thus spake dictionary.com:

verb (used with object) 1. to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon. 2. to break or tear into small pieces or shreds. verb (used without object) 3. to dwindle, shrink, degenerate, etc. (often followed by away): to watch one's fortune fritter away.

The lazy student frittered away his time, his parents' money, and his prospects for a prosperous future.

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