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Definition of rubbish heap in English: rubbish heapnoun British A pile of waste or discarded material. the old manuscripts were found in a rubbish heap figurative most theories are eventually consigned to the rubbish heap Example sentencesExamples - Ownerless dogs scavenge the rubbish heaps on the waste ground to the rear of the building.
- Once he loses the election next fall he will be cast on the rubbish heap of history.
- In 1999, over 24 million people replaced their PCs; nearly 90 per cent of this high-tech waste ended up in the rubbish heap.
- I'm sure I have a current National Trust membership card somewhere in the rubbish heap that is my office.
- It is time for them to remember the dreams of their youth which they may now have thrown on the rubbish heap.
- This meandering, overlong movie is rescued from the cinematic rubbish heap solely by Holm's performance, and a few nice, humorous touches.
- We take our recyclable rubbish to a new facility a couple of miles away and we treat the rubbish heap with rat poison.
- Long-term plans on how to get rid of the borough's annual rubbish heap of 148,000 tonnes have proved a problem.
- Every day, they travel into the city to trawl through the dustbins and rubbish heaps for anything that can be sold or recycled.
- In Europe, laissez-faire ideology has sent economic policymakers to the rubbish heap.
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