English Explanatory Dictionary

trash heap of history

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A notional place where events, people or objects which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective are placed or recorded.

Word forms

trash heap of history the trash heap of history

Etymology

In a similar form (“that great dust heap called ‘history’”) used by English essayist Augustine Birrell in 1887 (but in use before), popularized by Leon Trotsky in reference to the Mensheviks (1917).

Synonyms

ash heap of history dust heap of history garbage heap of history ashcan of history dustbin of history landfill of history trash bin of history
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