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English term or phrase:
scrappy
Polish translation:
złomowisko
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Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
Nov 8, 2022 15:24
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English term
scrappy
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Certified experts are available who know vastly more than... about everything and anything. Thus has the Protestant reformation whose brightest product was America been thrown on the scrappy because if there's any bedrock of the Protestant reformation it was Luther's declaration: "Every man his own priest".
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Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
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Native in: English 
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English term (edited):
scrap heap
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złomowisko
scrap heap albo nawet stos śmieci
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To completely discard someone or something that is unwanted, especially in an unceremonious way. The phrase implies that the thing being discarded is being treated as worthless, completely irredeemable, or not worth fixing.
The entire design is in danger of getting thrown on the scrap heap if we can't solve the overheating issue.
Fred's worked here for 30 years and they just throw him on the scrap heap like that? That ain't right
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/scraps