trash heap of history

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. figuratively
    — As I talked with Billy, it suddenly hit me that I needed to do something—no matter how minor—to save these stories from the trash heap of history.

词形变化

the trash heap of history canonical

词源

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).
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