scrap heap
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noun
1.
a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
2.
a place for dumping old, useless things.
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They raged that high interest rates and a high pound were crippling industry and throwing workers on the scrap heap.
Exposing these flaws usually takes less than a decade, and then the site is tossed on the archeological scrap heap.
However, wood has a finite life whether in buildings or in the scrap heap after the building has been torn down.
They are then repeatedly bought and sold for ever-diminishing sums, and are ultimately destined for the scrap heap.
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