抌錢落鹹水海

cantoneseplease:

抌錢落鹹水海 (dum cheen lauk haam sui hoi), literally translated as ‘throwing/discarding one’s money into the salt water sea’. It seems to mean something along the lines of investing unwisely/carelessly. I’m assuming it relates to how things cannot grow in water with high salinity (take the Dead Sea, for instance).