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Spending like the bill is someone else's problem, forever.
means Reckless, wasteful extravagance — in money or morals — with no apparent limit or restraint.
from Rooted in Latin profligare, 'to strike down, cast away, ruin' — from pro- ('forward') plus fligere ('to strike,' the same root giving us 'afflict' and 'conflict'). A profligate person was originally one who'd been struck down or dashed to ruin; by the 1700s the word had drifted from describing the wreckage to describing the reckless living that causes it.
- root
- Latin profligare, to cast down or ruin
- not just
- money — also morals, time, resources
- historical use
- 18th century insult for reckless aristocrats
- opposite
- thrift, its far less fun cousin