
ProverbMorality
International origin17th c.
It is no use throwing good money after bad.
Meaning: Pouring additional resources into a failing project only multiplies losses instead of salvaging them.
Origin: Recorded from the 17th century. It warns against spending more on a failing venture just to recover what has already been lost — what economists now call the sunk cost fallacy.
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