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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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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of jumble sale1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.
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They’d found a piece of fabric in a jumble sale together.
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More than a century later, the book was found among a pile of books at a charity jumble sale by Cindie Raven in Dorset.
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Charity shops and jumble sales have long offered a reliable way to extend the life of clothes.
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He unwittingly releases a drift of pigs from a house and later comes across an elegant jumble sale of a man who wields his walking stick like a “conductor’s baton.”
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