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What does jetsam mean?

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Noun
  1. articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress
  2. (by extension) discarded odds and ends
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Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore.
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations.
But, as I walk through here, the mud that is caked and the flotsam and jetsam.
I kick indifferently among the jetsam that has sedimented up against the curb somebody once painted white and then forgot about.
A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.

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