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1
fritter something away
waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters在琐事上浪费时间（或金钱、精力）：I wish we hadn't frittered the money away so easily.
要是我们当初没有把那笔钱随便挥霍掉该有多好。
2
- archaic divide (something) into small pieces〈古〉弄碎, 撕碎：
they become frittered into minute tatters.
它们被撕成一块块细小的碎布。
词源
early 18th cent.: based on obsolete fitter 'break into fragments, shred'; perhaps related to German Fetzen 'rag, scrap'.