"trash heap of history" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "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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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Michael Bellesiles, A People's History of the U.S. Military, The New Press",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Kaare Sørensen, quoting David Headley, The Mind of a Terrorist, Simon and Schuster",
          "text": "My ONLY hero is Muhammad Mustafa SAW and whatever he gave us will prevail and every thing else that stands against it is doomed to be decimated and end up in the trash heap of history, as you put it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A notional place where things which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective go."
      ],
      "id": "en-trash_heap_of_history-en-noun-VmM~DN6m",
      "links": [
        [
          "notional",
          "notional"
        ],
        [
          "forgotten",
          "forget"
        ],
        [
          "irrelevant",
          "irrelevant"
        ],
        [
          "historical",
          "historical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) A notional place where things which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective go."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ash heap of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "dust heap of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "garbage heap of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "ashcan of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "dustbin of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "landfill of history"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "historical irrelevance",
          "word": "historian romukoppa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "historical irrelevance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "oubliettes de l’histoire"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "historical irrelevance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Müllhaufen der Geschichte"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "historical irrelevance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "śmietnik historii"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "historical irrelevance",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "historiens skräphög"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Augustine Birrell",
        "Leon Trotsky"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "trash heap of history"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "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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      },
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Michael Bellesiles, A People's History of the U.S. Military, The New Press",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Kaare Sørensen, quoting David Headley, The Mind of a Terrorist, Simon and Schuster",
          "text": "My ONLY hero is Muhammad Mustafa SAW and whatever he gave us will prevail and every thing else that stands against it is doomed to be decimated and end up in the trash heap of history, as you put it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A notional place where things which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective go."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "notional",
          "notional"
        ],
        [
          "forgotten",
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        ],
        [
          "irrelevant",
          "irrelevant"
        ],
        [
          "historical",
          "historical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) A notional place where things which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective go."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ash heap of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "dust heap of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "garbage heap of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "ashcan of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "dustbin of history"
        },
        {
          "word": "landfill of history"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Augustine Birrell",
        "Leon Trotsky"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "historical irrelevance",
      "word": "historian romukoppa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "historical irrelevance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "oubliettes de l’histoire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "historical irrelevance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Müllhaufen der Geschichte"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "historical irrelevance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "śmietnik historii"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "historical irrelevance",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "historiens skräphög"
    }
  ],
  "word": "trash heap of history"
}