bottomless pit
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bottomless pit
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From Revelation 9:1–12.
noun bottomless pits
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A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
Similar: abyss
- Hell. 1769, The Bible, King James Version, Oxford Standard Text, Revelation, 9:11, And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
- An endless resource or supply. Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as "the bottomless pit of erudition."
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A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.
2006: The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit (blog entry), Phillip Rodokanakis
In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars.
Similar: black hole
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An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, falling into which typically costs the player a life.
Similar: death pit
Translations
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noun A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
| Español | pozo sin fondo |
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| 中文 | 無底洞 /无底洞 wúdǐdòng |
| العربية | هَاوِيَة hāwiya |
noun endless resource or supply
| Français | abîme |
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noun person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
| Español | pozo sin fondo, tragaldabas, barril sin fondo |
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| Français | puits sans fond |
| Deutsch | Fass ohne Boden |
| Italiano | pozzo senza fondo |
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