Idioms

the bottomless pit

a bottomless pit

1. A person who is always hungry. Her teenage son was like a bottomless pit as he devoured every last bit of food in the house. Sheesh, these kids are like a bottomless pit. Food vanishes almost as soon as I'm done cooking it! It makes no sense—my dad is super skinny, even though he's like a bottomless pit at mealtimes!
2. A situation that requires a seemingly endless amount of money or resources. With all the money and time we've sunk into repairs for the roof, windows, and foundation, this house has become a bottomless pit. The problem with buying used cars is that, even if they started off being cheap, they often turn into bottomless pits as they start breaking down. I bought this restaurant because of its prime downtown location, but with all the repairs and the huge amount of staff needed to run it, it's proven to be quite a bottomless pit.
3. The limitless cause or source of something, typically something difficult or problematic. Everything is going wrong lately, like challenges are coming from a bottomless pit or something. In my experience as a semi-famous person, social media is a bottomless pit of negativity. Someone is always unhappy with you about something. A cancer diagnosis is truly a bottomless pit of tests, scans, and doctors' appointments.
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the bottomless pit

euphemism Hell. The phrase comes from the Bible. Repent now, o ye sinners, or be cast into the bottomless pit for all eternity!
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bottomless pit

1. n. a very hungry person. The guy is a bottomless pit. There isn’t enough food in town to fill him up.
2. n. an endless source of something, usually something troublesome. Our problems come from a bottomless pit. There is just no end to them.
See also: bottomless, pit
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

bottomless pit, the

Hell; also, something or someone that uses up all one’s energy or resources. The expression appears several times in the Bible, most notably in the Book of Revelation (“and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit,” 9:1; “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit,” 20:1). In the eighteenth century, the term was humorously used for the English statesman William Pitt the younger (1759– 1806), who was very thin, and it still is jocularly used for a seemingly insatiable individual of huge appetite.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
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References in classic literature
By this time I had recovered myself a little, and I said, "God will at last punish him severely; he is reserved for the judgment, and is to be cast into the bottomless pit, to dwell with everlasting fire." This did not satisfy Friday; but he returns upon me, repeating my words, "'RESERVE AT LAST!' me no understand - but why not kill the devil now; not kill great ago?" "You may as well ask me," said I, "why God does not kill you or me, when we do wicked things here that offend Him - we are preserved to repent and be pardoned." He mused some time on this.
But if you think I am going to let the Union Jack go down and down eternally, like the bottomless well, down into the blackness of the bottomless pit, down in defeat and derision, amid the jeers of the very Jews who have sucked us dry--no I won't, and that's flat; not if the Chancellor were blackmailed by twenty millionaires with their gutter rags, not if the Prime Minister married twenty Yankee Jewesses, not if Woodville and Carstairs had shares in twenty swindling mines.
If there's one devil that I should like to see in the bottomless pit more than another, it's the drink devil."
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. They were, in short, kept in anxiety and dread lest their uncle and master should give them the slip the moment he found himself somewhat better, and as they feared so it fell out.
Sapsea has once declared anything to be Un- English, he considers that thing everlastingly sunk in the bottomless pit.
The voice of power, wrought out of suffering--of resolution, crushed out of weakness--of joy and courage, born in the bottomless pit of anguish and despair!
Yet half his strength he put not forth, but check'd His Thunder in mid Volie, for he meant Not to destroy, but root them out of Heav'n: The overthrown he rais'd, and as a Heard Of Goats or timerous flock together throngd Drove them before him Thunder-struck, pursu'd With terrors and with furies to the bounds And Chrystall wall of Heav'n, which op'ning wide, Rowld inward, and a spacious Gap disclos'd Into the wastful Deep; the monstrous sight Strook them with horror backward, but far worse Urg'd them behind; headlong themselvs they threw Down from the verge of Heav'n, Eternal wrauth Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.
"And if you choose to visit the bottomless pit, I won't go with you - we must part company, for I swear I'll not move another step towards it!
The bottomless pit of motivation I reach into every day has been formed by my family, and I have nothing but appreciation and gratitude for their hard work.
But when the PM is facing the bottomless pit of despair over Brexit, she'll clutch at any positive headline she can get.
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Fourthly, PS53 million a day goes into the bottomless pit of the European coffers.
We care about the fate of this one missing child because, if we are parents, we can recognise the bottomless pit of pain that consumes Kate McCann.
Inspired by the dream analysis of Sigmund Freud, Dream Journal consists of four movements with evocative titles: "Hunted," "Just Out of Reach," "Into the Bottomless Pit," and "Floating on the Wind." "Hunted" begins with a pointillistic tiptoeing figure in the low brass that gradually increases in intensity, assisted by unpredictable meters and rhythms.
what a load of codswallop, you can bet the last thing an MP thinks about when claiming these wrong and excessive expenses is reputation, no, it will be getting on the gravy train and dipping into the bottomless pit of money funded by genuine British tax-payers, so just who are the mugs here, as if we didn't know?
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