If you say that someone has been thrown on thescrapheap, you mean that they have been forced to leave their job by an uncaring employer and are unlikely to get other work.
Miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no prospects.
2. singular noun
If things such as machines or weapons are thrown on thescrapheap, they are thrown away because they are no longer needed.
Thousands of Europe's tanks and guns are going to the scrap heap.
scrapheap in British English
(ˈskræpˌhiːp)
noun
1.
a pile of discarded material
2. on the scrapheap
scrapheap in American English
(ˈskræpˌhip)
noun
a pile of discarded material, as of scrap iron
Idioms:
throw on the scrapheap
Synonyms of 'scrapheap'
In other languages
scrapheap
British English: scrapheap NOUN
If you say that someone has been thrown on the scrapheap, you mean that they have been forced to leave their job by an uncaring employer and are unlikely to get other work.
Miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no prospects.