Wastebasket

Tom threw the letter into the wastebasket.

Tom emptied the wastebasket into the incinerator.

The wastebasket is full.

Give me the wrapper, so that I can throw it in the wastebasket already.

These letters might readily have been consigned to the depths of the wastebasket unopened, unread.

The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.

For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]

I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.