(1) 这些短语均可表示“乱花钱”，意思接近汉语的“挥金如土”，常含有夸富的意味，是非正式用语，多用进行时态。
- Our new neighbor is always throwing/chucking/flinging/hurling/tossing his money about/around, with his color television and his new car every year.
我们的新邻居总是挥金如土，每年都要换新彩电和新车。 - As soon as he won all that money, he started hurling it about and soon there was none left.
他赢到那笔钱就开始挥霍无度，很快就一文不名了。
(2) play ducks and drakes除表示“打水漂”外，也可表示“乱花(钱)”。
- I don't think you have right to play ducks and drakes with the money that has been entrusted to you.
我认为你无权乱花别人托付给你让你来保管的钱。
(3) play games with可表示“不严肃地对待；把……当儿戏；乱用(钱)”。
- Some people consider that the government is playing games with the taxpayers' money.
有些人认为政府乱用纳税人的钱。
