Übersetzungen für „plughole“ im Englisch » Deutsch-Wörterbuch

ˈplug·hole SUBST

plughole

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Wendungen:

to go down the plughole

den Bach runtergehen ugs

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to go down the plughole

den Bach runtergehen ugs

to go down the drain [or toilet] [or tube[s]] ugs, to go down the plughole, [or Brit also pan], [or Aus gurgler] ugs

für die Katz sein sl

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Englisch

My generation is the first that can grow old with a sense that we're not sliding down the plughole in a big hurry.

www.radiotimes.com

A comforting thought when you next spot one crawling out of the plughole.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Once used, these tiny pieces of plastic are washed down the shower or basin plughole and into our wastewater pipes.

www.listener.co.nz

Does water go down the plughole clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the southern?

www.independent.co.uk

It's almost like water going down a plughole.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a plughole.

www.dailymail.co.uk

He was accustomed to making clients billions, yet here he was watching hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of yuan options sink down the plughole.

www.themalaymailonline.com

It is hard to watch something in which you have invested considerable time and resources that going down the plughole.

www.tvnz.co.nz

Round and round and round... and down the plughole.

www.irishexaminer.com

As the air converges on the pole and then sinks, it creates a vortex much like that found above the plughole of a bath.

www.dailymail.co.uk