waste-paper basket
Example Sentences
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Peter Drucker, a management guru, summed up the mood of the refuseniks: “One of the secrets of productivity is to have a very big waste-paper basket to take care of all invitations such as yours.”
From Economist • Aug. 15, 2013
The score sounds as if Weinberg had raided Shostakovich’s waste-paper basket for scrunched up castoffs.
From BusinessWeek • Oct. 2, 2011
‘As for this’ - she scrunched it up and threw it in the waste-paper basket - ‘it’s beyond us, Ted.’
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
I tore the page up in many little fragments and threw them into the waste-paper basket.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
