money pit

noun

: something that uses up a very large amount of money

My house is such a money pit—I'm always paying for repairs on it!

Examples of money pit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Because of that Mayfield extension, Nix’s reps have to be dreaming of a money pit so deep that Scrooge McDuck could do a crawl stroke through the middle of it. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2026

The new gadget indicates where Amazon is going with gadgets since launching Alexa+ in a bid to transform its AI assistant from a money pit into a lucrative tool. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 28 Oct. 2026

Those properties also give Alphabet the possibility to earn its way out of the data center money pit. — Kevin Stankiewicz,alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 16 July 2026

Strategies + Advice AI can be a money pit like no other, but there are ways to realize its value. — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Rhymes for money pit

• candlelit
• counterfeit
• hypocrite
• resubmit
• retrofit
• acquit
• admit
• armpit
• backlit
• befit
• cockpit
• commit