Noun : He was consigned to the dustheap after many years of public service. From Dictionary.com.
Spectator magazine who wrote in 1935 that Turks thought drowning kitten litters was cruel, so they dropped them in the "dustheap" instead. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference
I should be sorry to add to the dustheap of rubbishy talk about. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Tomorrow, let's consign her to the dustheap of history forever. From Wordnik.com. [Palin On Democrats: "Do They Think The Terrorists ... Are The Good Guys?"] Reference
We can't come to terms with why the US is in the pickle it is in without consigning McCain to the dustheap. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: The Bogeyman] Reference
The real truths, half truths and delusions each has added to the accumulating common stock it sifts and weighs, mercilessly piling a dustheap beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
The phone calls were fewer, the visits were fewer; the friendship, all told, was left to languish in the dustheap of obligations from my previous, childless life. From Wordnik.com. [Around The Corner, I Had A Friend | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Or, did they pull the plug well before they could film the resolution to the mystery, so they will just be forced to cancel it, leaving this series in the "Now and Again" and "Cupid" dustheap?. From Wordnik.com. [Got a Question for theTVaddict? | the TV addict] Reference
So Knoll's curvy creation is either one more dot-com idea doomed to the dustheap, or an enduring symbol of dot-com influence on corporate culture, even a precursor of the spaces we'll all work in someday. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt Against Right Angles] Reference
At the same time, those most affected by the flow should not be consigned to the dustheap, but rather provided with the benefits of retraining and a safety net for those unable to adjust to the Darwinian pressure to change. From Wordnik.com. [The Emerging Markets Century] Reference
Yet the ecstatic reception Boulez receives these days when he conducts in Chicago or Vienna -- neither city a bastion of modern music, from which Boulez never strays -- suggests that Boulez is not so easily consigned to the historical dustheap. From Wordnik.com. [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference
Unless its leadership is willing to embrace new ideas and new members, the once Grand Old Party will be relegated to the dustheap of history, like the Whigs, Federalists and other once-major parties that refused to face reality and change, and rapidly moved from dominance to extinction. From Wordnik.com. [Who Is John McCain, and What Is He Doing to the Republican Party?] Reference
Unless its leadership is willing to embrace new ideas and new members, the once Grand Old Party will be relegated to the dustheap of history, like the Whigs, Federalists and other once-major parties that refused to face reality and change, and rapidly moved from dominance to extinction. '. From Wordnik.com. [Who Is John McCain, and What Is He Doing to the Republican Party?] Reference
Still if it were not written rather faster than the fastest type-writing, if I stopped and took thought, it would never be written at all; and the advantage of the method is that it sweeps up accidentally several stray matters which I should exclude if I hesitated, but which are the diamonds of the dustheap. From Wordnik.com. [2006 December « Becca’s Byline] Reference
Spider Man 4 got relegated to the dustheap of history. From Wordnik.com. [Screenhead] Reference
So they threw it on a dustheap where the dead Swallow was also lying. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
She drags out a skinny little arm from a brown dustheap on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
His last relation to his work, his fondly cherished intellect, was departing from him, to leave him lord of a dustheap!. From Wordnik.com. [Salted with Fire] Reference
Meanwhile I tell you candidly, you brown man, there is something in Jurgen far too admirable for any intelligent arbiter ever to fling into the dustheap. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
"On strict business principles, altruism apart, why not take what we can get out of Tim Gorman's invention and let the thing itself drop into the dustheap?". From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
No matter how intense the spirit or how important the man, the moment he will not allow himself to be used or sell his principles, he is thrown on the dustheap. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchism and Other Essays] Reference
Although this theory has long been exploded, and thrown upon the dustheap, it continues to be applied daily by the entire machinery of government, turning it into the most cruel and brutal tormentor of human life. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchism and Other Essays] Reference
Facts were treated as unworthy of her; mere stuff of the dustheap, mutton-bones, old shoes; she swam above them in a cocoon of her spinning, sylphidine, unseizable; and between perplexing and mollifying the slaves of facts, she saw them at their heels, a tearful fry, abjectly imitative of her melodramatic performances. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
I found a treasure in that dustheap, and went away with it. ". From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
As a result we find the house of Heaven converted into a dustheap. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Certain Hour] Reference
BlastfromthePast “… and, hence, that there doesn’t appear to be much to NS to act on, meaning that NS is just some trite historical invention which will one day very soon be hoisted upon the dustheap of ideas.”. From Wordnik.com. ["Endless diversity" in bacterial genomes? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It now is starting to look as though there’s no such thing as a “random mutation”, and, hence, that there doesn’t appear to be much to NS to act on, meaning that NS is just some trite historical invention which will one day very soon be hoisted upon the dustheap of ideas. From Wordnik.com. ["Endless diversity" in bacterial genomes? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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