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scrap heap
noun as in worthless material
Example Sentences
It’s been months since Broomhilda went to the scrap heap and I’m still car shopping.
"We will not stand back and allow our livelihoods, our communities and the UK's steelmaking capacity to be thrown on the scrap heap."
This scrap heap of hulking male humanity landed perhaps seven feet away from me, and I wasn't in danger of being plowed over myself, as sideline photographers sometimes are.
Destined for the scrap heap, these historic artifacts just had to be saved.
That has left Ms Haley feeling like she is "back on the scrap heap again" and "old before her time".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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