go to waste

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go to waste

to not be used. It's wrong to let good food go to waste. The companies have spent millions of dollars on new equipment that lets nothing go to waste.

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If by living thus reserved and austere, like a hermit in the woods, so long, it has acquired such wonderful purity, who would not regret that the comparatively impure waters of Flint's Pond should be mingled with it, or itself should ever go to waste its sweetness in the ocean wave? Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context He and his Scotch wife and his Scotch children, the only respectable inhabitants of Queen's Crawley, were forced to migrate, with their goods and their chattels, and left the stately comfortable gardens to go to waste, and the flower-beds to run to seed. Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context More results

References in classic literature

If by living thus reserved and austere, like a hermit in the woods, so long, it has acquired such wonderful purity, who would not regret that the comparatively impure waters of Flint's Pond should be mingled with it, or itself should ever go to waste its sweetness in the ocean wave?

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

He and his Scotch wife and his Scotch children, the only respectable inhabitants of Queen's Crawley, were forced to migrate, with their goods and their chattels, and left the stately comfortable gardens to go to waste, and the flower-beds to run to seed.

Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context

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