dustbin of

Frequency: 3.50.9 per million words

figurative: used to describe a place that is considered a dumping ground for undesirable things.

dustbinPREPOSITION

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Examples (10)

  • The politicians who lost the elections will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
  • This country's lax environmental laws have turned it into the industrial dustbin of the region.
  • Many outdated scientific theories are now in the dustbin of discredited ideas.
  • He argued that such discriminatory policies belong in the dustbin of the past.
  • Without funding, the innovative project was relegated to the dustbin of forgotten proposals.
  • Critics claim the new law will create a legal dustbin of unenforceable regulations.
  • Once-revolutionary gadgets are quickly swept into the dustbin of technological obsolescence.
  • The dictator's regime was eventually thrown into the dustbin of history by a popular uprising.
  • She feared her artistic ambitions would end up in the dustbin of unfulfilled dreams.
  • The library's basement became a dustbin of old, unread books.