plughole BrE
drain AmE *

You may find that water does indeed always go down your plughole the same way.

Does where you are in the world affect how water goes down your plughole?

And not just the soap: clean out the plughole too.

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

Years spiralled into the bag like water down a 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.

She washed spiders down the plughole, and felt guilty as hell about it.

To ram the point home, the stream empties into an enormous plughole.

Clean the plughole of any obvious muck and hair.

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!

Both mice lure the cat on to the sink so that they can put his tail down the plughole.

Again he experienced that psychic sucking, as if the field had been drawn swirling through a plughole.

A pipe ran from below the plughole down through the hole in the centre of the canvas platform.

Between her feet, water swirled down the plughole, taking red and black threads of blood and dirt with it.

Albert gave his peppermint a suck; it sounded like the plughole in the bath of God.

Nevertheless, attracted by Susan's voice in the reverberating plughole, the four friends are reunited.

The 'public expenditure tap' was free flowing but at times it may just have run straight down the plughole.

Faced with such a threat.spiders may be better off lurking beneath the plughole from now on.

Many people say that every plughole in Britain - and all countries north of the Equator - should swirl the same way.

It left a tidemark of greasy bits as it sank away down the plughole.

The euro continues to bob around at $1.2975, rather like a plastic duck threatening to slip down the plughole.

You've got to know where to put in the drain.

I moved myself quickly over the drain and just had to let go.

They usually had a drain to take away any water.

I could feel the blood drain out of my face.

He saw the color drain from the large man's face.

Even under the make- up I could see the color drain out of her face.

The last weeks have been a drain, but I still think about the lives of my children.

And they will become a drain on the nation's resources.

It was possible to feel the energy drain from the room.

"I was not going to watch 65 years go down the drain."

"Sometimes you have to go down the drain with one guy."

Think about all the water that goes down the drain every day.

If only to see the color drain from the young doctor's face.

I felt that everything I'd worked for had gone down the drain.

"The economy will go down the drain if she does not act."

Where did I say it was money down the drain?

Now, why would that make the blood drain from her face?

We were seen as a drain on the resources of the state.

Before any of them has a chance this project must go down the drain.

What is he actually going to do to stop the brain drain?

Just less than half the money created went down that drain.

"They're going to have to face up to it as things go down the drain."

She let all the air drain out of her after speaking.

I been working on this since they found that drain.

And then to have it all go down the drain like that.