The process or result is not worth the effort.

An expression denoting excommunication by anathema according to a rite of the Latin Church.

(alternative medicine) An alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

present participle of burn the candle at both ends

simple past tense and past participle of burn the candle at both ends

(idiomatic) To work hard night and day. / To waste something in two directions at once.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of burn the candle at both ends

simple past tense and past participle of burn the candle at both ends

Alternative form of burn the candle at both ends

Alternative form of better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness