"collect dust" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "collects dust",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collecting dust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collected dust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collected dust",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "collect dust (third-person singular simple present collects dust, present participle collecting dust, simple past and past participle collected dust)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The trophies on his wall reminding him of his heyday are now just collecting dust."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remain untouched and unused for a long period of time."
      ],
      "id": "en-collect_dust-en-verb-CqscGovk",
      "links": [
        [
          "untouched",
          "untouched"
        ],
        [
          "unused",
          "unused"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To remain untouched and unused for a long period of time."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "catch dust"
        },
        {
          "word": "gather dust"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chīhuī",
          "sense": "remain unused",
          "word": "吃灰"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "remain unused",
          "word": "pölyttyä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "remain unused",
          "word": "ramasser la poussière"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pylítʹsja",
          "sense": "remain unused",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "пыли́ться"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-collect dust.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/En-au-collect_dust.ogg/En-au-collect_dust.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/En-au-collect_dust.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "collect dust"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "collects dust",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collecting dust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collected dust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collected dust",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "collect dust (third-person singular simple present collects dust, present participle collecting dust, simple past and past participle collected dust)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The trophies on his wall reminding him of his heyday are now just collecting dust."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remain untouched and unused for a long period of time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "untouched",
          "untouched"
        ],
        [
          "unused",
          "unused"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To remain untouched and unused for a long period of time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-collect dust.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/En-au-collect_dust.ogg/En-au-collect_dust.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/En-au-collect_dust.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "catch dust"
    },
    {
      "word": "gather dust"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chīhuī",
      "sense": "remain unused",
      "word": "吃灰"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "remain unused",
      "word": "pölyttyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "remain unused",
      "word": "ramasser la poussière"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pylítʹsja",
      "sense": "remain unused",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "пыли́ться"
    }
  ],
  "word": "collect dust"
}