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• n  a hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats
• n  a small dirty uncomfortable room

• Muses Candido: "I kick pimps out of hotels, I break up fights in rathole rooming houses.
• This would compensate for New York, San Francisco et al where if you dont want to live in a rathole you need to buy more houseapartment.
• The upshot of which sounds to my uneducated ear like The Plan is sure to be inefficient, but unlikely to be nothing more than money poured down a rathole.

News & Articles

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• Poland's Rathole Miners
  Digging coal illegally, often called “rathole mining,” proliferated in the late 1990s in Walbrzych, Poland, after the state abruptly decided to shutter coal plants in the region. It continues today.
  March 29, 2014 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in FOXNews
  Biden said the time is coming when the American public will no longer tolerate lives and money "being poured down a rathole because, in fact, we're in the middle of a civil war." "The last time I said this, the president said, 'We can't tell...
• Jim McMahon in E-Commerce Times
  That place is a damn sight better than the old rathole I used to live in,McMahon said at the time in a rare slip of the tongue. "Er, I mean, the new facility is a state-of-the-art distribution center that will improve stocking capabilities...
• Mike Modano in San Jose Mercury News
  I know it was a rathole,Modano said of the fabulous Daly City dump where the Sharks played their first two years as a franchise. "But I just loved it. We would come out here and stay in San Francisco, and then down here, and I just grew to...