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circular file
noun
The trash container; the wastebasket.
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And the stack of carefully written policy statements and surveys will end up in the circular file.
Besides, my guess is that the configuration sheet will end up being regularly shot off the backboard of the circular file without a glance at its contents.
When you tell people you're recovering from a hit-and-run, people who say they receive 1,000 résumés a day might use that as one reason to put your résumé into the circular file".
For an entire month recently, I saved all the mail and trinkets I received at my office, rather than route them to the circular file or give the contents to colleagues.
Strategic word selection can catapult an announcement about a study, a product or a "breakthrough" onto the evening news instead of to its usual destination — the spam folder or circular file.
With each additional million in sales, "Nevermind" convinced another record executive to sign that flannel-wearing, distortion-pedal-stomping band whose demo tape would otherwise have gone to the circular file.
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Most of these landed in "circular files" (wastebaskets), although Planned Parenthood did give them out.
In express terms this notification applied to both inter and intrastate shipments; and, it is averred, this circular was filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
One of the reasons for this could be that the canal anatomy impedes adequate cleaning of the narrow fissured areas with circular root files since the canal lumen is irregular and the risk of subsequently creating voids is high [ 11,12].
One day, while Muir was repairing a belt for a circular saw, a file flew into his face, temporarily blinding him.
The colony roughness also remains similar, with amensalism and competition displaying deviations from circular colonies (Additional file 1: Figure S5).
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