(a) bottomless pit (of something)
- (a) bottomless pit (of something)
a bottomless ˈpit (of sth) idiom
a thing or situation which seems to have no limits or seems never to end
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There isn't a bottomless pit of money for public spending.
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the bottomless pit of his sorrow
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