bottomless pit
nounEtymology From Revelation 9:1–12.
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A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
- 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.
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Figuratively 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."1994, Donald Frederick Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe:
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Figuratively 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.
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Video games An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, where falling in typically causes the player’s character to instantly lose a life.