dumping ground

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European bishops "regarded America as a convenient dumping-ground for rubbish," and he grew "weary of eccentric Frenchmen and quarrelsome and bibulous Gaels."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Bend is a mass of wreck, a dumping-ground for all manner of filth from the surrounding tenements.

From The Making of an American by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

The hitherto disregarded author is recognized, and the idol of yesterday, which seemed so important, is taken down from his too large pedestal and carted off to the dumping-ground of inadequate things.

From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

But Mr. Long, unwilling to share the fate of Mr. Tennant, suggested that the Secretary for Scotland would form a more appropriate dumping-ground for Mr. Watt's dossier.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

America has been from 1492 to the present time, in the language of the American "press," the "dumping-ground" of the nations of the world, the real open door; yet this grinding assimilation has gone on.

From As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home by Gratton, Henry Pearson