- lose a bundle
- lose a bundleSl. to lose a lot of money. •
Don lost a bundle on that land purchase.
•I know I would lose a bundle if I went to a casino and gambled.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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lose a bundle — tv. to lose a lot of money. (See also bundle. Compare this with make a bundle.) □ Don lost a bundle on that land purchase. □ I know I would lose a bundle if I got on a riverboat and gambled … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
bundle — n. a large amount of money. (See also lose a bundle; make a bundle; package.) □ He still has a bundle from the sale of his house. □ You must think I have a real bundle … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
lose — [v1] be deprived of; mislay be careless, become poorer, be impoverished, bereave, be reduced, capitulate, consume, default, deplete, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, drain, drop, exhaust, expend, fail, fail to keep, fall short … New thesaurus
bundle — bundler, n. /bun dl/, n., v., bundled, bundling. n. 1. several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay. 2. an item, group, or quantity wrapped for carrying; package. 3. a number of things considered together … Universalium
bundle — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, amble, array, bale, band, bandage, barge, batch, belt, bend, bind, bind up, bindle, body, bolt, bomb, boodle, bouquet, bow out, bowl along, brace, budget, bunch, bundle off, bundle up, bustle, chain, chase … Moby Thesaurus
drop a bundle — lose money by gambling, lose your shirt I dropped a bundle at the track last night. I lost every bet … English idioms
drop a bundle (to) — Lose or spend a lot of money. ► “Attracted at least partly by the promise of globalization, a lot of wealthy organizations want to get into the action and are willing and able to drop a bundle to get in.” (Forbes, Nov. 21, 1994, p. 244) … American business jargon
Fiber bundle — In mathematics, in particular in topology, a fiber bundle (or fibre bundle) is a space which looks locally like a product space. It may have a different global topological structure in that the space as a whole may not be homeomorphic to a… … Wikipedia
drop one's bundle — (Aust sl) To lose one s nerve, to give up • • • Main Entry: ↑bundle … Useful english dictionary
Drop one's bundle — to lose control of the situation and to find it hard to get it sorted out or to cope with things ( Bundle a load you carry ); to surrender, give up without trying … Dictionary of Australian slang
drop one's bundle — Australian Slang to lose control of the situation and to find it hard to get it sorted out or to cope with things ( Bundle a load you carry ); to surrender, give up without trying … English dialects glossary
