fritter something away

Players can easily fritter away $100 in half an hour.

That is what Israel has been seeking all its life, they say, and so the chance must not be frittered away.

Either way, his money was soon frittered away on drink and gambling.

They may think that the savings would be frittered away in price competition.

There are no scholarly measures of how much gets frittered away.

A considerable part of the day is often frittered away in this manner.

We can't permit them to be frittered away or destroyed.

I'd wander down the high street, frittering away on whatever took my fancy.

A major opportunity to guard against future pressure from Japanese competitors thus seems to have been frittered away.

He had no time or interest to fritter away on trivialities.