| 单词 | jumble sale |
| 例句 | 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.” His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z They could either select a handful of moderately good works – or just leave everything heaped around the floor and let people rummage through as if at a jumble sale. Sargent and the Sea 2010-07-14T20:30:00Z The advantage is that one artist gets to put on a serious show instead of being slotted into a curated jumble sale. The real heart of the Venice Biennale 2011-03-17T10:21:28Z The other similarity with the traditional car park jumble sale is that the artworks are sold for knockdown prices - with pieces changing hands for as little as £10. Bagging a bargain at the Art Car Boot Fair 2012-05-28T17:01:32Z I would scour jumble sales and second hand book shops to find anything with stories told in pictures. Penelope Bush's top 10 teen twin books 2013-03-28T16:29:47Z I’d been buying stuff from jumble sales, where people take unwanted clothes and household items to a church hall. Jarvis Cocker Keeps Hearing That Voice 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Cutting-edge performance artists staged happenings and smart collectors trolled to find future art stars at jumble sale prices. Scene/Seen: Like a Magic Candle, Los Angeles's Chinatown Relights 2011-04-15T12:00:27Z She wore a dingy green dress that looked ready for a jumble sale, and gymshoes. Guess by Philippa Pearce - short story 2012-11-13T15:59:33Z Charity shops and jumble sales have long offered a reliable way to extend the life of clothes. Love Island: Second hand clothes and the trouble with fast fashion 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Groups in some of the poorest areas of England were hit when social distancing ended jumble sales, quizzes and car washes, the organisation said. Covid-19 'leaves 500 Scout groups at risk of closure' 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z When most of them were closed down, tuning around the shortwave bands on a radio that my mum bought for me at a church jumble sale led me to amateur radio. How amateur radio is connecting people during lockdown 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z A rare 109-year-old football shirt which almost ended up at a jumble sale is to be auctioned. Rare football shirt nearly went to jumble sale 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z I remember once I was at a jumble sale and I managed to get an old, slightly damaged naked Barbie. Daisy Haggard takes humiliation comedy to extreme levels in 'Fleabag' producer's new show 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But that’s not to say Britain’s corporate landscape now resembles a jumble sale, with distressed bargains right and left. Never Mind Brexit. Peppa Pig and British Pubs Are Attracting Buyers. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z When she was a teenager in the 80s, her father banned her from jumble sales in case people thought the family was poor. 'Don't feed the monster!' The people who have stopped buying new clothes 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z I raided jumble sales for the mod suit and found a Purdey wig in a Family Welfare Organisation charity shop. 'Someone called me the antichrist': behind the battles for Christmas No 1 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It can be fabulous, or it can be like a dreadful art jumble sale – “hung with the usual motley abandon”, as art critic Alastair Sooke noted last year. Grayson Perry: ‘RAs have to fight it out with Joe Bloggs – that’s what's great about it’ 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z "I've got this little wardrobe set up, of fantastic capes and cloaks," says the singer, who previously bought her outfits at jumble sales. Kim Wilde on aliens and her pop comeback 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It is like an endless waterlogged forlorn jumble sale. After the flood: 'No tourists please. Help welcome' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Now, its shop floor struck her as “an explosion in a jumble sale”. 'Don't feed the monster!' The people who have stopped buying new clothes 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z In his BBC interview Mr Nuttall also said Mr Banks - who wants to be appointed chairman because he says the party is being run like a "jumble sale" - was not "UKIP's major donor". Paul Nuttall: UKIP 'mess' will take time to sort out - BBC News 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Banks has threatened to pull his funding unless he is made chairman so he can “purge” members and stop it being “run like a jumble sale”. 'Dinner with the Donald': Nigel Farage joins Trump's table at Washington hotel 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z At the jumble sale, “Where ladies of the village fight like visigoths for pillage” he found love and assonance among the bric-a-brac: “Romance perchance prevails at humdrum jumble sales”. Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z It's an odd assortment on offer; more jumble sale than department store. BHS closure: Last day at a British High Street stalwart - BBC News 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z But in the church’s aisles, a used-book jumble sale and an exhibition by local painters take up far more room than the vaunted chapels. Discovering the beauty of Suffolk, through a WWII soldier’s eyes 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z She finds them in jumble sales in village halls—you always find a coronation mug on the bric-a-brac table. A Visit to the Kitchen of London Restaurateur Russell Norman 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But you won't find these in a school jumble sale any time soon. CES 2015: Sleep, faffing and skates 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Ms Mills and other friends of Mr Hughes raised more than £2,500 in eight months by holding jumble sales, collections, hotpot suppers and raffles and surprised him at a presentation. Dad given funds for baby's headstone 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Signs boasting “mega-deals” hang throughout its shops, which often resemble jumble sales. Game, set, match 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z A bit awkward when at a jumble sale, someone asked if they could help and you said "it's ok, I'm just rooting around!" Australian slang: Your favourite examples 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr Dawson was quick to spot an opportunity when he was still at junior school - selling items given to him from jumble sales. 'How I made my first billion' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I already knew the delights of charity shops, vintage markets and the occasional scrum of a jumble sale. Death in Bangladesh is too high a price for quick-fix fashion 2013-05-16T11:04:15Z His father resprayed an old bike picked up from a jumble sale, and presented it to little Chris on Christmas morning. 50 stunning Olympic moments No49: Chris Hoy's crazy few days in 2008 2012-07-11T08:00:02Z "They weren't going to jumble sales and buying clothes like the rest of us." Punks of '77: Still angry after all these years? 2012-05-16T10:36:45Z "Five shillings I am bid for a forty-foot ladder!" said Mr. Armstrong to the Heavens; "I'd get a better price at a jumble sale!" In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Or to the curate's wife, for a jumble sale. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Buff's suit to be sponged with ammonia and mended, old clothes to be looked out for a jumble sale, a pile of letters to reply to. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z I could fill closets with the inexpensive home equipment and DVDs if I hadn’t donated them to our local library for their annual jumble sale. Well: Saving Money on Fitness 2010-12-24T15:26:37Z The Dutchman defied Bundesliga regulations to wear a grey pair of woollen tights straight out of a Romanian village jumble sale. It's the Honigsteins 2010! The complete review of the past Bundesliga season 2010-05-27T12:23:00Z Two girls of twenty-three, turning up at the Hotel Cecil with highly luxurious-looking but empty baggage, and clad as it were off a stall at some country rectory jumble sale! Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Oh—er—she—well—she does the flowers, and comes calling with me, and she's invaluable at jumble sales, when we have them. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts Vida was conscious of wishing that she had come in her usual clothes—above all, that Janet had not raked out that 'jumble sale' object she had perched on her head. The Convert And what a lot of begging, writing, giving of jumble sales, supposing they were moved to give that sum, would be saved to the Joneses! A Sheaf of Corn When the waiters had moved away, "We are having a jumble sale," she announced. Once a Week The mayor's wife opened the door an inch and peeped at us as we lay, looking, indeed, more like a jumble sale than anything. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Nor indeed was the jumble sale again mentioned, a fact which in itself should have aroused my suspicions; but I am like that, innocent as a sucking-dove. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 That's the right figure, isn't it, for the best things at a jumble sale? The Rebel of the School The jumble sale was held in the beautiful concert hall of the Sidcup Temperance Congregational Reed Band. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 "Send it to the jumble sale," I advised. Once a Week As everyone does the same, a stranger passing by would think there must be a 'jumble sale' going on. Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago The jumble sale was being held in the schools and all St. Gwithian was there, fighting tooth and nail over the bargains. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 Say you went to a jumble sale and bought it; you paid one-and-twopence-halfpenny for it. The Rebel of the School It was so old that any jumble sale would have been pleased to have it. The Professional Aunt It was an odd collection of very dear friends, Miss Middleton's final reminder having been that nothing was too old for a jumble sale. Once a Week They continued to hold meetings, rummage and jumble sales, entertainments and special services. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists A jumble sale is to rus what remnant sales are to urbs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 "Well, mention it now, and then I'll mention my jumble sale." Once a Week |
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