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What is a scrapheap?

What is a scrapheap? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pile in which junk is discarded.
  2. A junkyard.
  3. (figuratively) A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas.
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Will two centuries of sifting really leave La Dolce Vita, Raging Bull, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Sweeney Todd on the same scrapheap as the works of Thackeray?
Why didn't NATO follow the Warsaw Pact onto the scrapheap of history after the end of the Cold War?
It has always seemed wrong to me that someone reaches a certain age and is then thrown on the scrapheap.
The new owners did not realise the importance of the statue which was covered in dust and was destined for the scrapheap.
If the closures go ahead, hundreds more coal mineworkers and their families in hard hit regions will be thrown on the industrial scrapheap.
If they don't work, they can be relegated to the scrapheap, but we should learn something from the experiment.

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