word choice - Throw away/in/out for rubbish? - English Language …
2011年6月27日 · 6. Use "throw away" if you don't know where it's going to be thrown. "Throw out" is also common, though not as much. "Get rid of" is the most common, for if you're willing to throw out the idea of "throw". "Throw in" always means to give up - cf. the common expression "throw in the towel". Don't use it to mean "throw away", unless you want to ...
meaning - What is the difference between trash, garbage, litter ...
2015年9月6日 · Trash: To throw away or discard / worthless material. Also Empty words, worthless ideas, worthless or offensive literary material. It would seem then that trash and waste have similar meanings in some cases, but in others not so much. Waste basket and trash basket might be considered similar.
AmE: "take out the trash" vs. "take out the garbage"
2015年4月2日 · When I was a teenager, newly moved to Rockland County, NY (NYC suburb), I was surprised that garbage and trash were two different things. Garbage was, and still is, your ordinary household refuse, while trash is stuff you don't throw away on a regular basis (i.e. old shoes, things you stored in the garage, etc.)
Different way of saying "throw rubbish" in Cantonese?
2019年6月26日 · reng1 (pinyin) is the Mandarin pronunciation of "扔", but this question is about Cangtonese. "扔" is pronounced wing1 (Jyutping) in Cantonese. However, "扔" is rarely used in Cantonese. "Throw" can be said in Cantonese as "掟" (deng3) or (in the case of trash) "抌" (dam2), but neither of those sound close to "wang". –
"throw out/away" vs. "toss (out)" vs. "pitch (out/away)" for …
THROW AWAY. Also, throw out or toss out. Dispose of, discard, as in This coat is too good to throw away, or Did you throw out the rest of the milk? or She tossed out all his old letters. [First half of 1500s] The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. TOSS/TOSS OUT. toss. To get rid of : throw away. Merriam-Webster. toss out
A person who has a hard time throwing away unnecessary things
2018年8月21日 · When I hear pack-rat, I imagine a house with a bunch of useless knick-knacks. When I hear hoarder, I think about a room piled high full of pizza boxes and bags of McDonalds trash and soda cans everywhere; where there's no room to even walk in most of their house because they never throw anything away, not even actual trash. –
slang - Looking for synonymous expressions for - to throw …
In my native (Georgian) language we have this colloquial saying - throw someone away like an eaten apple, meaning- to get rid of someone after having taken advantage of him/her in a dishonest way. I have come across a few such sayings in English as well, like- to throw someone away like an old rug or used toothpick or spit someone out like a ...
Origin of "one man's trash is another man's treasure"
2012年3月7日 · The earliest trash/treasure I can easily find in print is The Saturday evening post: Vol 198 (1925), but William & Robert Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts (1879) has...as one man's meat is another man's poison, …
word choice - What are these containers called for waste?
2019年12月22日 · 7. There are so many ways to call these containers for waste. (correct me if some of them might sound weird/unnatural to use) garbage can, trash can, rubbish can, pedal can, garbage bin, trash bin, rubbish bin, pedal bin. I'm totally confused. I know some of them might mean the same thing.
Words for a garbage man who takes waste material to throw away …
2015年6月26日 · @deadrat - I believe we can recycle any metal, but what you say is true here as well. I don't think there's enough activity that scavengers scour the area for a living, it's more opportunistic. We have an annual "big trash day" where large and non-recyclable items will be collected, and almost none of what's put out reaches the official collectors.