rottame in inglese:

The building was reduced to a heap of rubble.

The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.

heap of letters

Clothes were heaped on a chair

Lying on the heap of...

A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes.

The wood was kindled, the flames arose, and a mouldering heap of ashes was soon all that remained of Mrs Askew and her fellow martyrs.

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.

... and it drove a heap of traffic backwards and...

in heaps / a rubbish heap

Jack has a whole heaps of CDs.

Joan is just twenty years old, but she looks like a heap.

How much for this heap?

Your room is so dirty, look at this heap of rubbish!

There isn't any car mechanic in the world who can fix this old heap

I think we should scrap this idea.

Hundreds of nuclear weapons have been scrapped.

They had been forced to scrap plans for a new school building.

Please get me a scrap of paper.

Let's scrap everything and start over again with a clean slate.

Tom asked for Mary's address and wrote it down on a piece of scrap paper.

a scrap of a puzzle

There wasn't a scrap of truth in the statement.

throw sth on the scrap heap

... like Ron Roth to scrap their old vehicles.

the national tests for 14-year-olds were scrapped

My old car was sold for scrap.

scraps of left over food

We sold the car for scrap (= so that any good parts can be used again).

The child was throwing scraps of meat to his puppy under the table / Any scrap of information you may have could be helpful to our investigation