grat inglês:

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

bangers and mash (= potatoes), ... this clapped-out old banger. Banger racing is a tarmac or dirt track racing type of motorsport event popularised in Europe

Don't tell me you're still driving that old banger.