ash-can

When (or if) biologists decide (as a result of dis-confirming evidence) that evolutionary theory no longer explains what needs explaining, then it will - too - take its place in the ash-can of failed, scientific theories.

Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience - The Panda's Thumb 2009

He's already in the ash-can of history with no chance of redemption, no matter how hard the media tries to spin a "Bush comeback."

L.A Times: Even If Dems Win Both Houses, Rove Will Still Have Given "Virtuoso" Performance 2009

But hic jublilatio erat totam spoiled for meum par lisant une livre, une novellum novum nomine “Salt” par Herr C. G. Morris8—a most astounding piece of realism, it makes Fortitude9 look like an antique mental ash-can and is quite as good as “The Old Wives Tale.”

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

But hic jublilatio erat totam spoiled for meum par lisant une livre, une novellum novum nomine “Salt” par Herr C. G. Morris8—a most astounding piece of realism, it makes Fortitude9 look like an antique mental ash-can and is quite as good as “The Old Wives Tale.”

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

But on the way to the cable-car no ash-can presented itself.

A Lost Story 1996

"I will drop it in some ash-can or down some sewer on the way to the office," she said to herself.

A Lost Story 1996

Let's face it — most US books look ready for the ash-can as soon as they are published.

A Satisfied Author Faith, Carl 1979

Intoxicated by liberty and the power of man over machine, you flashed around the town at nothing less than eighteen miles per hour, creating consternation among the citizenry, tossing their traffic laws into the ash-can, putting children and elderly persons in peril of their lives, not even troubling to ring your bell or — '

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

Or so I imagined until the next morning when, as I was leaving for work, I saw the cage perched on a sidewalk ash-can waiting for the garbage collector.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

Or so I imagined until the next morning when, as I was leaving for work, I saw the cage perched on a sidewalk ash-can waiting for the garbage collector.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958