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spend good money after bad

spend good money after bad is the alternative form of throw good money after bad.

Meaning of throw good money after bad

Verb

throw good money after bad (third-person singular simple present throws good money after bad, present participle throwing good money after bad, simple past threw good money after bad, past participle thrown good money after bad)

  1. (idiomatic) To waste money in a fruitless attempt to recoup losses previously incurred.

Forms of spend good money after bad

third-person singular presentspends good money after bad
present participlespending good money after bad
past participlespent good money after bad
pastspent good money after bad

Questions about spend good money after bad

What is spend good money after bad the alternative form of?
Spend good money after bad is the alternative form of throw good money after bad.

Words near spend good money after bad in the dictionary

  1. Spencers Brook
  2. spences
  3. Spences Bridge
  4. spend
  5. spend a penny
  6. spend good money after bad
  7. spend money like water
  8. spend time
  9. spend-all
  10. spend-alls
  11. spendability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spend good money after bad (page history and authors); throw good money after bad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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