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circular file

NOUN
wastepaper basket
Synonyms


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I freelance, and it seemed like every accounts payable department I deal with had somehow sent my invoices to the online equivalent of a circular file.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2015

Most of these immediately go in the circular file.

From Forbes • Mar. 31, 2015

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list:

From Forbes • Sep. 23, 2014

Later, I would learn that the disciplinary committee, inundated with more serious offenses, had essentially thrown this one into the circular file.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

When sufficiently enlarged, recourse may be had to the rat-tailed or circular file.

From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Petherick, Horace