bottomless pit

Definitions

1. A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
2. Hell.
3. An endless resource or supply.
   figuratively
4. A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.
   figuratively
5. 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.

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Examples

“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.”

“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."”

“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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