bottomless pit

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a bottomless pit

someone or something that always needs or wants more of whatever they are given, especially money. It's a poor country with a bottomless pit of debt. Seb'll eat any food that's left over. He's a bottomless pit!

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"It's very apt to set him off with the same energy in a much worse direction," answered Fisher; "a pretty endless sort of direction, a bottomless pit as deep as the bottomless well. The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context The bay was like a bottomless pit of intense light. Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context On this the pair once more lifted up their voices and renewed their maledictions upon the books of chivalry, and implored heaven to plunge the authors of such lies and nonsense into the midst of the bottomless pit. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context More results

References in classic literature

"It's very apt to set him off with the same energy in a much worse direction," answered Fisher; "a pretty endless sort of direction, a bottomless pit as deep as the bottomless well.

The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context

The bay was like a bottomless pit of intense light.

Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context

On this the pair once more lifted up their voices and renewed their maledictions upon the books of chivalry, and implored heaven to plunge the authors of such lies and nonsense into the midst of the bottomless pit.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

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