For instance, you have trash and other items in your hands and you mistake one for the other, keeping the trash and throwing away the non-trash item, or you are holding something and absentmindedly throw it into the trash, etc.
• Footnote: Canadian, British, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Australian, New Zealander, and peoples in/from associated colonies and former colonies, please substitute the word "rubbish" for the word "trash". Thanks, mates!
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