trash can
Noun
Meaning
trash can (plural trash cans)
(US) A receptacle which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
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Examples
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.
My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.