circular file
nounEtymology
In reference to the wastebasket's cylindrical shape, and the act of throwing things away rather than filing them in cabinets.
Definitions
The trash container
The trash container; the wastebasket.
- He was completely underqualified for the job, so I put his resume directly into the circular file.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for circular file. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA