Idiom
hot garbage
Meaning
Anything that is extremely bad, low-quality, or worthless.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This new movie is absolute hot garbage.”
“The report was full of errors and missing data, so the manager called it hot garbage.”
“After reading the poorly written manuscript, the editor dismissed the entire project as hot garbage that would never sell.”
Examples
simple
“This new movie is absolute hot garbage.”
contextual
“The report was full of errors and missing data, so the manager called it hot garbage.”
complex
“After reading the poorly written manuscript, the editor dismissed the entire project as hot garbage that would never sell.”
Origin
From the compound of hot, in its mid-20th-century sense of radioactive, and garbage. The term originated in the nuclear industry to denote radioactive waste materials before evolving into a general descriptor for the highly undesirable.
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