Definition of "flotsam and jetsam" []

• The remains of a shipwreck still floating in water. (noun)
• That which has been discharged from a ship or boat, especially on the ocean or a sea, (flotsam unintentionally and jetsam intentionally). (noun)
• A collection of miscellaneous items or fragments of little importance. (noun)
• People considered to be of little worth. (noun)

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• "Among the interlacing roots seaweed, sodden driftwood and leaves lodge, sand collects, and as the level of the floor of the ocean is raised the sea retires, contributing by the flotsam and jetsam of each spring-tide to its own inevitable conquest."
• "The sea brought the flotsam and jetsam straight to the studio, although Ackling makes his work out of doors."
• "They were the flotsam and jetsam of the army, and the simplest solution, when there were enough of them, was for the General to tie them together as a temporary Battalion of Detachments."