Meaning of great bit bucket in the sky | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of bit bucket (“notional resting place of lost or missing digital information”).

humorous, slang, uncountable

Examples

“You cannot interrupt it by pressing Esc or Ctrl-Break, and if you use brute force to stop it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or by turning off the machine, your data will disappear into the great bit-bucket in the sky. Most other disk packers guard against accidental data loss by keeping a spare copy of a cluster ondisk while transferring another copy from one part of the disk to another.”

“So a file named a.doc or files 1.doc through 9.doc would be sent to the great bit bucket in the sky; however, a file named 10.doc, because it has two characters in the file name, would not be affected by the previous command, which may not have been your intention.”

CEFR level