circular file
Example Sentences
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I freelance, and it seemed like every accounts payable department I deal with had somehow sent my invoices to the online equivalent of a circular file.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2015
Most of these immediately go in the circular file.
From Forbes • Mar. 31, 2015
These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list:
From Forbes • Sep. 23, 2014
Later, I would learn that the disciplinary committee, inundated with more serious offenses, had essentially thrown this one into the circular file.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
The actual count could have been more because in 1950, UFO reports were about as popular as sand in spinach, and I would guess that at least a few wound up in the "circular file."
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
