heap together

And I thought, ‘Well, we have all these social problems backed up. Why can’t we begin to put all these people we’re putting on the scrap heap together with these problems?’

Both kids were curled in a messy heap together, snoring soundly, black hair mingling with brown, arms in a tangle, mouths open.

Instead, he called him into his office and told him, “We’re joined at the hip. Either we’re going to the mountaintop together or we’re going to the trash heap together.”

Instead, he called him into his office and told him, "We're joined at the hip. Either we're going to the mountaintop together or we're going to the trash heap together."

Instead, he called him into his office and told him, “We’re joined at the hip. Either we’re going to the mountaintop together or we’re going to the trash heap together.”