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down the gurgler

down the gurgler prepositional phrase: synonym of down the drain.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Synonym of down the drain.
    • “Those people who have sought to deify our wilderness … those days are over. We are not going to sit around and read poetry to rare lizards, whilst our current account deficit goes down the gurgler,” Jones said.2025 May 26, Eva Corlett, quoting Shane Jones, “New Zealand will not be ‘guilt-tripped’ over environment, resources minister says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    down the drain

Synonyms of down the gurgler

Questions about down the gurgler

What does down the gurgler mean?
Down the gurgler means synonym of down the drain.
What part of speech is down the gurgler?
Down the gurgler is a prepositional phrase.

Words near down the gurgler in the dictionary

  1. down tack
  2. down tacks
  3. down the banks
  4. down the cludgie
  5. down the drain
  6. down the gurgler
  7. down the hatch
  8. down the house
  9. down the khazi
  10. down the line
  11. down the middle

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