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Collect dust.
If something is collecting dust, it isn't being used any more.
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The unfinished draft of his most recent novel collects dust next to his computer.
He collects Pulitzers, Bookers and National Book Awards the way furniture collects dust.
Over time, your mattress collects dust mites, skin cells, perspiration, body oils, and they really respond to those messages".
Mr. Bitomsky, a German documentarian of impressive patience and patient curiosity, collects dust with scholarly thoroughness and poetic zeal.
Ms. Park has a few small reservations: there are too many steps, and the woodwork collects dust.
Green indoor-outdoor carpet covers the creaky floor, and an old blue Hoover vacuum cleaner collects dust in a corner.
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My father's incredible collection of albums, of which I had no knowledge, was collecting dust in the basement.
Now, my mother's massive book collection of murder mysteries and crime thrillers sit on a bookshelf collecting dust.
The ideas collect dust.
The gloves collect dust in his locker.
Mustache Brothers T-shirts are collecting dust.
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