bit-bucket

bit-bucket

A humorous name for the place where lost computer files are thought to have gone. I could have sworn I saved that document, but it must have gone into the bit-bucket.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bit-bucket

n. the imaginary place where lost computer data goes. (Computers.) I guess my data went into the bit-bucket.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • where
  • here today and gone tomorrow
  • here today, (and) gone tomorrow
  • here today, gone tomorrow
  • be gone on
  • gone
  • gone on (one)
  • be gone up
  • go soft in the head
  • to hell and gone