Throw away

If you throw away something you get rid of it, you discard it, throw it in the trash or you could be wasting something, especially an opportunity.

1. What do you do with your old clothes? Do you throw them away, sell them, donate them to a charity or let them pile up in your closet? Normally in a large family with lots of children, the clothes are handed down from the older kids to the younger kids for them to wear. They don’t throw the clothes away. The old clothes are “hand-me-downs” because they are handed or passed down.

2. Do you save the leftover food from any meal, do you usually give it to the dog or throw it away? There is an English saying which goes like this: “Waste not, want not”, which means that if you don’t waste anything, you will never need or be without anything.

3. If you don’t take advantage of a good opportunity, it can be said that you are throwing it away. Have you ever thrown away an opportunity because you didn’t try?

 
4. There are some people who don’t throw anything away - they save and keep absolutely everything. These people are called hoarders, because they hoard (keep/ collect) everything, which in its extreme form is really a mental illness.

5. A throw-away society is a society which consumes a lot of disposable items that are thrown away. On the top of the list is the US, followed by Russia, Japan and Germany.