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ash-heap

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ash-heap

  1. A heap of ashes.
  2. A collection of ashes and household waste.
    Synonym: ash-heap-cake
  3. (figurative) A state of ruin.
    In 1980, when I was 10 years old, Jimmy Carter was going to leave our country on an ash heap.
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