scrap heap

Even that crew got a boost from lefty Mike Gonzalez, a veteran signed off the scrap heap in May in a subtle midseason addition that strengthened a strength.

The problem runs far deeper, to an absurdly narrow legal definition of ‘corruption’ that throws democracy on the trash heap.

Since then, Abilify has risen from the fifth-most-prescribed drug to the top of the heap.

And Ebola, in turn, has returned to the top of the local talking-points heap.

He snatched up the thrown chair and crashed it down onto the head of a charging older black man, who crumpled into a heap.

This regrettable action will, of course, ignite a racial gang war, leaving a heap of bodies in its wake.

But here at Fort Walsh we're among a class of people that are a heap different from Texas cow-punchers.

At this point Harry entered and stood afar off, eying Punch, a disheveled heap in the corner of the room, with disgust.

If they'd been white men I would probably have been curled in a neat heap within two hundred yards.

You'll be a heap more sane when you get that old, wild-west notion, that every man should be a law unto himself, out of your head.

He gathered the heap and flung it into a corner, then caught up his hat and struck out for the loneliest part of the ranch.