to waste time or money on things that are not necessary or important
And to make matters worse, he frittered away the money while she was asleep in bed recovering.
British taxpayers have grown accustomed to their money being frittered away.
Consumer price deflation continues; there is investment in cars and new homes but not much cash is frittered away on laptops and lipstick.
ENERGY ministers have frittered away enough cash to heat 3,000 family homes for a year, it was claimed yesterday.
How can the Government justify cutbacks in Britain when it fritters away money?
It just means more of our hard-earned cash being frittered away.
Just how much cash was frittered away, and just how scandalously, is only now emerging.
Maybe you work in a council and are disgusted at how you see cash being frittered away.
Over the next year he frittered away all his winnings.
This overspend will anger taxpayers who do not want their money frittered away on politicians' vanity.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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