down the gurgler

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down the gurgler

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Synonym of down the drain.
    • 2025 May 26, Eva Corlett, quoting Shane Jones, “New Zealand will not be ‘guilt-tripped’ over environment, resources minister says”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      “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.
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