Noun : The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes. ,He lives in a rathole near the docks.    From Dictionary.com. 

Those photos stink of tabloid rathole papparatzis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incredible Venality] Reference

We are losing everything down the Iraq rathole now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: McCain and the Economy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Mr. Caruso will show you to the nearest rathole out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Friday]

But this is of course 'liberal rathole' new England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The excuse of architecture] Reference

Twenty years earlier he would have called it a rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Echo]

This guy is leading the Democratic party down a rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign Has Yet To Sign Off On Michigan Revote, Leaving Plan In Limbo] Reference

And you look at him like he just crawled out of a rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captives Of The Night]

If I send him more, it'll be like pouring it down a rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CLASS] Reference

But let's go no further down that particular semantic rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

If you're going after rats it helps to know where the rathole is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Copper Tears]

They should have been deported back to the rathole they came from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference

Hillary: It's about time you started cleaning up this rathole, dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: My Wife's Remarks About Family Are Never About Hillary] Reference

It looked like a rathole, so small that even the imps had to crawl into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yon Ill Wind]

Once again we all follow HRC down a rathole that only helps the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Campaign: She "Misspoke" About Bosnia Sniper Incident] Reference

WND descended further down the rathole of deceit by disavowing its own reporting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry Krepel: The Year WorldNetDaily Died] Reference

No more borrowing, no more banks, no more money poured down the interest rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homebody]

It's simply criminal that we've been dumping money and time down the Ares rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [ULA Briefings Show that EELVS Can Replace Ares 1 - NASA Watch] Reference

What part of pouring money down a rathole of a lost cause is difficult to understand?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Pro-Hillary Group Looking To Make Ad Buy In Oregon] Reference

But all in all it's not the inner city total rathole it will no doubt be portrayed as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who next for Glasgow Springburn?] Reference

Behind the dilapidated stove he found a bottle with alcohol which he poured into a rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

Why are we throwing 25% of our VC capital down a rathole that only produces 5% of the output?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement] Reference

| Reply | Permalink they also don't like pouring money down a rathole if there is no payback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign Overwhelming Ayers Swift-Boat Spot With More Response Ads] Reference

They went on, Timmy sniffing into every rathole and rabbit-hole, enjoying himself thoroughly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Fall Into Adventure]

Is its "mission" accomplished or are they crawling back to the rathole from whence they came?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

In any case, I agree that Iraq is a rathole, and would rather see my tax dollars go elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growth] Reference

The only openings were the doorway and a rathole beside the mirror, but the man in the gray coat was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

So they think that closing down that rathole in Guantanamo that the rest of the world thinks is barbaric is a bad idea?.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP Warns Dems, Giving Back Constitutional Rights Could Backfire] Reference

"Rent is money going down a rathole, but you get some freedom you don't have when you own your own home," Mr. Cook says.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Your 70s, Weighing Whether to Buy a Home or Rent] Reference

The truth is that the rich are useless predators, and defense spending is a total rathole except in the time of non-bogus war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time to Attack The Right Wing's Core Values-- Less Taxes and Less Government] Reference

And yeah, the RNC has some down ballot races they have to start looking at rather than pour more money down the McCain rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Entered October With Over $130 Million Cash On Hand] Reference

If I can't, there's plenty of other hotels around here that look newer, nicer and just as affordable as a king sized suite in a rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference