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Fritter away   /frˈɪtər əwˈeɪ/   Listen
verb
Fritter  v. t.  (past & past part. frittered; pres. part. frittering)  
1.
To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
2.
To break into small pieces or fragments. "Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense."
To fritter away, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.





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"Fritter away" Quotes from Famous Books



... belief, that "God made of one blood all nations that dwell on the face of the earth;" and on this we would base one of our arguments for the subordination of a part of the human family. It is not necessary to the vindication of our cause, or of truth, to deny the authority, or to fritter away the evident meaning of any part of the word of God, as is done by most of the abolitionists. It is sufficient for our purpose that we have shown that the negro is an inferior variety of the human race; that he is inferior in his physical structure, ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various
... people who might annoy him or waste his time. He would not assume his repelling pose if he knew you had come with a purpose of true service, after full preparation of yourself and your selling plans to interest him. Though he does not realize it yet, you will neither pester him nor fritter away ...
— Certain Success • Norval A. Hawkins
... Sue took a stand which could not be shaken, even if the easy-going mooning colonel had exerted himself to that extent. She insisted upon using one-half the yearly income for household expenses; the other the colonel could fritter away as he chose upon his racing-stable and his secondary hobby—an utterly absurd ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
... regular, proper, natural boys, that used to be "Back Home," boys whose daddies tormented them with: "Well, we Il see—" that's so exasperating!—or, "I wish you wouldn't tease, when you know we can't spare the money just at present." A perfectly foolish answer, that last. They had money to fritter away at the grocery, and the butcher-shop, and the dry-goods store, but when it came to a necessity of life, such as going to the circus, they let on they couldn't afford ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood


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