piece of trash
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4.7
- noun
- /piːs əv træʃ/
- Offensive
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basura
- Because he treats the Constitution as if it were a piece of trash.
- a worthless piece of trash
- a little piece of trash
- pick up a piece of trash
Literally just a silver piece of trash.
- Literally just a silver piece of trash.
- She's the biggest piece of trash in the world I guess.
- And I'm thinking, how can the love of my life just throw me away like a piece of trash and not look back?
- Cavalry didn't show up to deal with that, you know, piece of trash when it would have really counted and done something.
Examples
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There are several candy wrappers, cigarette butts, and other pieces of trash stuck to the bottom of one shoe.
Fiction book (1993) -
Pick up that piece of trash, Tom.
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It's a piece of trash.
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Can this piece of trash go away?
Blog text (32) -
Where I hope there could be agreement is that this news story is a piece of trash and that it belongs in the garbage.
Blog text (19) -
I can proudly say I have never watched this piece of trash show.
Blog text (16) -
When we finished the picnic, we picked up every piece of trash left behind.
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He called the old sofa a piece of trash and decided to throw it away.
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The artist transformed what others saw as a piece of trash into a beautiful sculpture.
Synonyms
536
1.0
Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
373
1.1
Old or broken things that are no longer useful
246
1.6
Useless or silly information, for example in unwanted emails
169
9.9
A person or thing that is very bad and has no value used to insult someone
148
7.4
People who are treated as worthless or unimportant
61
9.6
A rude word for a person or thing that is very bad and not worth anything
36
3.2
A thing that is worth little and does not work well
34
8.9
A thing of very poor quality that is useless
22
1.0
Things people throw away because they are not wanted
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1.7
A thing that is useless and not worth keeping
13
9.9
Something that is very bad and should be ignored
4
8.8
A thing that is broken and useless
3
9.9
A rude word for something that is nonsense or of very low quality
1
9.9
A person seen as having no value or use
1
9.9
A thing that is of very poor quality and not worth the money
1
6.1
A thing that costs little and is low in quality
1
9.9
A thing or person of low quality and bad taste
1
9.9
An insulting word for a person or thing that is very bad
Something of very poor quality not worth buying
A thing that is very bad and of low quality like a book or film
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
An object like a phone or lamp that is broken and not worth keeping
Very low quality art or entertainment that lacks new ideas
Old or unwanted things thrown away
Things people throw away because they are not useful
Antonyms
How Worthless
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'piece' (a portion or item) + 'of' (linking) + 'trash' (garbage/worthless), so a learner who knows those words can infer it means an item or person regarded as trash. The 'piece of X' noun phrase pattern is common and predictable across languages, making the sense transparent rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Piece of trash comes from the simple image of a small piece of trash on the street that people throw away. Calling a person or idea that way compares them to a thrown-away object and says they are 'worthless'.