If you're building a business on trade secrets or lack of information among your customers, you're trying to fill a leaky bucket.
This version is referred to here as the leaky bucket as a meter.
The wrong strategy, it seems to me, is to go court and try to stop the leaky bucket.
The song is based on a dialogue about a leaky bucket between two characters, called Henry and Liza.
But to fix the leaky bucket, he needs straw.
Her mind, empty as a leaky bucket, struggled to fill again.
We're not just taking about some leaky bucket here.
"They must have found the ship," said Strong, the color draining from his face like water from a leaky bucket.
The process is a little like trying to bail out a boat with a leaky bucket: some of the water gets handled more than once.
Gideon relaxed, too, all the feistiness draining slowly out of him like water from a leaky bucket.