🗓️ Idiom: A Money Pit (n)
💬 Meaning
- A business or project that keeps needing more money without giving good results.
- Something that constantly drains financial resources.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The app looked promising, but it turned into a money pit after two years of constant updates and no revenue.
- Their coworking space became a money pit because of high rent and low membership.
- Without proper budgeting, that marketing campaign could become a money pit.
🏛️ Origin
The idiom originally referred to old houses that required endless repairs and costs. In business, it now describes any project that demands more and more investment without bringing returns.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
The founder shut down the project because it had become __________.
Answer
a money pit
2. Choose the correct meaning:
What does “a money pit” refer to?
A) A highly profitable business
B) A company with strong investors
C) A project that keeps using money without results
Answer
C) A project that keeps using money without results
3. Change the sentence using “a money pit”:
“The website redesign kept costing more and more with no clear benefit.”
Answer
The website redesign was a money pit.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
