dumping-ground
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dumping-ground
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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 Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
He would be coming home soon, carried, according to convoy, to any unfriendly hospital dumping-ground in the United Kingdom.
From The Rough Road by William John Locke
At last we got to the dumping-ground spot again—the spot where we horsemen have to come to earth and walk, and where everything is unbaled from the limbers.
From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
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 Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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