pure trash
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6.6
- noun
- Slang
- After reading the reviews, I realized that the book was pure trash.
Examples
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And just like the other cars just look like pure trash compared to like the Lambos.
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Many people believe that this movie is pure trash and not worth watching.
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Ugly and pure trash!
Blog text (11) -
"Oh, that's just trash," he spits, "pure trash."
Fiction book (1999) -
We now know that Waterloo is a battle mis-told, and that the Stalingrad battle accounts circulating for decades are pure trash.
Blog text (19) -
His excuse was nothing but pure trash, and everyone knew it was a lie.
Synonyms
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1.1
Old or broken things that are no longer useful
157
1.6
Useless or silly information, for example in unwanted emails
70
3.1
Words or writing that have no value
55
8.9
A thing of very poor quality that is useless
35
3.2
A thing that is worth little and does not work well
25
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
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4.7
Something thought to be worthless or of very low quality
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9.9
Poor-quality items that are not worth buying
2
9.9
A thing that is of very poor quality and not worth the money
2
9.9
Something that is very bad and not useful
1
9.7
Very low quality art or entertainment that lacks new ideas
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'extremely bad or of very low quality' is directly built from 'pure' (utter, sheer) modifying 'trash' (worthless material), so the overall sense is an intensified version of the noun. This intensifier + negative-noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Pure trash comes from the simple image of something that is only rubbish. Pure means nothing else mixed in and trash means rubbish, so the phrase is used to say something is 'very bad' or of 'very low quality'.