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Qué (quién) es fritter away - definición

FRIED SWEET OR SAVORY PASTRY
Pineapple fritter; Fritters; Apple fritter; Fritter roll; Cucur; Gorengan; Twigim; Indonesian fritters

fritter away      
1.
Diminish, pare off, reduce to nothing.
2.
Misuse (time), waste, dawdle away, idle away, fool away.
3.
Waste bit by bit, destroy gradually, waste by dispersion or by trifling and petty use.
fritter away      
v. (D; tr.) to fritter away on (to fritter away one's time away on trifles)
fritter away      
If someone fritters away time or money, they waste it on unimportant or unnecessary things.
The firm soon started frittering away the cash it was generating...
I seem to fritter my time away at coffee mornings.
= squander
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P

Wikipedia

Fritter

A fritter is a portion of meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables or other ingredients which have been battered or breaded, or just a portion of dough without further ingredients, that is deep-fried. Fritters are prepared in both sweet and savory varieties.

Ejemplos de uso de fritter away
1. Even Viv spend, spend, spend Nicholson took four years to fritter away her winnings.
2. They can either play this card, or they can fritter away into irrelevance again.
3. After I moved to California, gave in to my obsession with horses, and became a single mother, to fritter away an hour meant to fritter away most of the day‘s allotted writing time.
4. The stakes are too high to stand by while companies fritter away billions of dollars.
5. Yet while Honduras may have won the lottery, it might well fritter away its gains.