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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
circular file
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we know the usual fate of such ephemera: consignment to the bottomless circular file below the desk.
Wiktionary
circular file

n. (context idiomatic humorous English) The trash container; the wastebasket.

WordNet
circular file

n. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish [syn: wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket]

Usage examples of "circular file".

Between you and me and the circular file, I believe the Testing Section goofed dramatically when they pegged this race for a mere Stage D, back in the beginning.

Silver-nailed Janice didn't give me the benefit of her jiggling, gum-chewer's smile, but she did look up Louis Cyphre's address in her circular file.

It's going right into the old circular file as soon as I make a couple routine calls to the feds.

I dumped them all in the circular file, and began to wrack my brains in spite of the heat.

Orbovich searched in vain for another cigarette, crumpled the empty pack and consigned it to a circular file.

I ran a scanner over the universals for each of the files, and dumped the lot in the circular file.

He picked up the phone again, searching through his circular file.

His dad had given him a ton of material on the program, and Alex had dutifully filed it awayin the circular file.