Water habits: how much energy and waste is going down the plughole?

And partly because York was going down the plughole a bit in the fourteen fifties as well.

Just what the world needs as it goes down the plughole... yet another set of music awards.

'It's my life which is about to go down the plughole.

As it was, some of it was fighting not to go down the plughole.

The gurgle in the pause was like the last bathwater going down the plughole.

No wonder this stupid country and all its culture and past achievements are going down the plughole!

At first Ann thought it was water going down the plughole, then maybe somebody with hiccups, then possibly someone being smacked.

When the economy started going down the plughole three years ago, a craven part of me thought "well, at least I might get the odd evening off".

"It's the general buggeration factor; unions feel they've been messed around and that the government is going down the plughole anyway.

It is such a pain to get to for a reasonable price, since Royal Airlines and FlyZoom went down the plughole.

'We are dead if we stay with VSEL, the whole town will go down the plughole.'

'Barmen all over the world acquired a fair percentage of my money,' Jimmy regrets 'And the rest went down the plughole with various business ventures.'

The cost of the 'soap that went down the plughole' as the Daily Star described it, was variously estimated at between £10 million and £20 million.

I had wanted to do something with my life - I thought I had some capacities and here they were going down the plughole with the soapsuds."

On top of this, his magical prowess is growing all the time: He makes water change direction as it goes down the plughole (defying gravity) and wakes from his nightmares levitating.

As I see it, it's like Mervyn King being made a Peer, called in by the Queen and Parliament being asked to told to give him a vote of confidence or the economy goes down the plughole.

He describes it as "some astro-visions, an orgy scene with Linda and the Japanese girl, the scene where you see [Oscar] waking up at the morgue and he thinks he's alive but he's not, and then the camera goes down the plughole where she's tipping his ashes."

"Your Baby Has Gone Down The Plughole" (also known as "A Mother's Lament" and "The Angels' Reply") (Writer unknown, but Ian Whitcomb has stated on the Dr. Demento radio show that the song was written by Karl Marx.)