wastepaper basket Význam & definice

Příklady wastepaper basket

• Thereupon, he tore up his resignation papers and threw them in the wastepaper basket.

• May we take it that that speech can now be forgotten and put into the wastepaper basket?

• They do not want just another issue of millions of paper-backed books to go either on to the front room bookshelf or into the wastepaper basket.

• Ours is a live constitution, perfectly capable of absorbing and flourishing upon anomalies which will live on long after those other constitutions have been thrown into the wastepaper basket.

• Agnes is found in her room bleeding profusely, and in a wastepaper basket there is a dead baby with its umbilical cord wrapped around its neck.

• People with such a mindset do not need to be persuaded too long before they jettison play-writing in the wastepaper basket of classical literature.

• We did not intend to use pragmatics as a wastepaper basket.

• If you try any other approach, your complaints end up in the wastepaper basket.