verb. phr. (American).—To be beyond question; to come up to the mark; e.g., ‘Is the news reliable?’ Yes, it FILLS THE BIN. Cf., TO FILL THE BILL.
1862. Speech of W. G. Brownlow of Tenn. in New York Herald, 16 May. ‘Sir,’ said he,—and he [W. L. Yancey] is a beautiful speaker and personally a very fine-looking man,—‘are you the celebrated Parson Brownlow?’ ‘I’m the only man on earth,’ I replied, ‘that FILLS THE BIN.’
