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jumble sale
jumble sale
noun
- a sale of miscellaneous articles, usually cheap and predominantly secondhand, in aid of charity US and Canadian equivalentrummage sale
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jumble sale1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
The jumble sale was being held in the schools and all St. Gwithian was there, fighting tooth and nail over the bargains.
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Without Love they were nothing—odds and ends, fit for a jumble sale.
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Say you went to a jumble sale and bought it; you paid one-and-twopence-halfpenny for it.
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As everyone does the same, a stranger passing by would think there must be a 'jumble sale' going on.
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That's the right figure, isn't it, for the best things at a jumble sale?
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