Quit
Quit verb - To give up (a job or office).
Waste
Waste verb - To use up carelessly.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Back in the past, he realizes that behaviour was a self-destructive and dumb waste of time, so he is trying to quit the habit (and he is listening to a different kind of music, too).
Source: Fanfic / Once More with Feeling -
Quit Your Whining: In chapter 3 HERZ is performing a battery of tests on one of their Evas
and simultaneously placating Asuka who is the test pilot and is not happy about it, considering it a long, useless, big waste of her time.
Source: Fanfic / HERZ
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