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round file

noun

  1. a wastepaper basket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to throw into a wastepaper basket; discard; reject
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

“I thought it was going in the round file,” she said.

We told Ms. Hudgins this route was a waste of taxpayer money, but she reportedly filed our petition “in the round file.”

Otherwise, typical junk mail can go into the round file as usual.

From US News

A round file should always be a little smaller at its greatest diameter than the hole in the work.

You’ll want the little round file for that holler in her bow.

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