Bin and Tin

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Bin noun - A covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things.

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Tin and bin are semantically related. in drum topic. In some cases you can use "Tin" instead a noun "Bin".

Nearby Word: bint

Tin noun - A metal container in the shape of a cylinder.

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Bin and tin are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bin" instead a noun "Tin".

Nearby Words: tint, tine, tinware

As should be clear by this point, all this is a complete aversion of the trope, as what is inside the tin is not at all what it says on the tin, but what it says on the tin in the bin.

Source: Radio / I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Austrian writer Friederike Mayroecker's 2010 book ich bin in der Anstalt: Fusznoten zu einem nichtgeschriebenen Werk ("I'm at the asylum: footnotes to a nonwritten work") is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

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