On the Trails: Middens Middens. This interesting and useful word comes ultimately from an old Scandinavian term for a dunghill. The sense has been broadened to include heaps of all kinds of refuse and junk.
April 11, 2014 - Juneau Empire
Max Hastings in BBC News Former Evening Standard editor Max Hastings writes: "We have the wretched spectacle of a BBC chairman resigning while Alastair Campbell crows from the summit of his dunghill."
Garry Wills in International Herald Tribune Trying to find a construct, 'the historical Jesus,' is not like finding diamonds in a dunghill, but like finding New York City at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean,Wills says. "It is a mixing of categories, or rather of wholly different...