Idiom
catch dust
Meaning
To be rarely used.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My old guitar is just catching dust in the corner.”
“I bought a fancy juicer last year, but it has been catching dust on the kitchen counter ever since.”
“The vintage typewriter, once a vital tool for his daily writing, now catches dust in the attic as a forgotten relic of the past.”
Examples
simple
“My old guitar is just catching dust in the corner.”
contextual
“I bought a fancy juicer last year, but it has been catching dust on the kitchen counter ever since.”
complex
“The vintage typewriter, once a vital tool for his daily writing, now catches dust in the attic as a forgotten relic of the past.”
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