ash heap
Pile of cinders
An ash heap is a pile of ashes and cinders, typically from burned coal or wood.
The term appears most often in figurative contexts about destruction or obsolescence: The failed policy was consigned to the ash heap of history.
To end up on the ash heap is to be discarded as worthless or defeated.
- cindersPartly burned coal pieces
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- dustFine settled particles
- debrisScattered broken fragments
fire damage · garbage · refuse · slag · burned out · waste · garbage dump · embers · dump · decay · remnants · soot · desolation · ruin · destruction · smoldering · charred · burnt
- ashashtray, ashfall, cremains, cinder, cinders
- Book of JobJob, Satan, Yahweh, God, Leviathan
- waste pilesgarbage pile, trash pile, rubbish pile, debris pile, scrap pile
- Dumpsitesdump, dumpsite, garbage dump, landfill, rubbish tip
- hellholeshellhole, dungeons, dungeon, dump, dumps
ash heapinferno
Devastating, uncontrollable blaze
blaze · conflagration · woodpile · firewood stack · bonfire
ash heaptreasure trove
Ownerless valuables found hidden
gold mine · garden · fertile ground · treasury · storehouse
ash heapseat of power
Governing authority's location
throne · monument · eternal city · promised land · golden age