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
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
Toom, tōōm, adj. empty.—n. a dumping-ground for rubbish.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Frost was the agent, ice was his delver, water his carrier, and the basin of Lake Ontario his dumping-ground.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.
When the gourds are ripe, these vines look like the dumping-ground for numerous poor, discarded oranges.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
