Some are banal ("dustbin of history," "people will say the terrorists won"), some are question-begging ("an overmilitarization of the war"), and some are exceedingly unfortunate ("It's a clash of religions").
An over-flowing dustbin and some sticky sludge are put to good use, but when he returns home there is already another bath running for him.
But just as eating out becomes more fashionable, the march of technology is consigning the raison d'être of some retailers to the dustbin of history.
"It could have been in some rubbish or a dustbin that has been picked up and sent in with the rest of the rubbish collection".
Unless, of course, you consider a free bottle of Starburst-branded, fruit-flavoured milk drink to be a perk (it arrived in the post some months ago; I dispatched it to the dustbin moments later).
And the pocketbook may soon be destined for the dustbin of history — or at least if some technology companies get their way.
Some are now visible as dents the size of dustbin lids, others as casts, created when the stone around them weathered away.
The current nutrient standards are based on science and while they may need some updating they should not be thrown in the dustbin.
treaty, he asked: "Might it be another 'relic of the cold war,' as the ABM treaty has been labeled some time ago" before it was "shelved to the dustbin"?
It is a curiosity how some disasters endure and others are relegated to history's dustbin.
