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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a dump for a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a place or situation that is considered messy, disorganized, or unpleasant, often in a derogatory manner.
Example: "This place is really just a dump for a restaurant; the service is terrible and the food is worse."
Alternatives: "a mess of a" or "a disaster of a".
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When you've lived in a dump for a while, you become blind to the depravity of your circumstances.
Compare it to buying houses -- do you want to buy a dump for a pittance, spruce it up quickly, and unload it for a smaller but more immediate profit?
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Down at the bottom of what would have been the sluiceway, water company workers, in matching T-shirts, pulled out rocks and chunks of old transformer covers in this spot that probably was a dump for an electric utility company years ago.
These factors will weigh on the minds of decision-makers, whether the subject is a dump for lethal chemicals, a nuclear power plant, a prison or a highway.
Cribb's well, poisoned by run-off from the abattoir, became a dump for objects including an alcohol still, probably thrown into the well during a government inspection.
When the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 was passed, it was not clear it would be used against activists protesting outside US intelligence bases or Oxfordshire villagers protesting about turning a lake into a dump for fly ash.
The project has been variously described by present and former Russian officials as a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, a dump for nuclear materials and a bunker for Russia's leaders in case of nuclear war.
As Stephen Armstrong wrote in his history, The White Island: "Over the centuries, virtually every culture around the Mediterranean has used the island either as a playground or as a dump for the kind of people who didn't quite fit in back home, but who you'd probably quite like to meet at a party".
Don't use the workshop as a dump for old and malfunctioning things.
All in all, a tasty Twitter dump for a Sunday, don't you think?
But it's not that far-fetched of a claim, as the genre itself, fostered by Morizen Foche aka MoFo during his tenure at Thrasher Magazine, was really just a categorical dump for a broad range of bands who rode skateboards.
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