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Aladdin's cave

noun

  1. a place containing fabulous riches

  2. a place where something is abundant

    an Aladdin's cave of presents for children

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It was an Aladdin's cave disguised as a cluttered seaside relic; sophisticated communications interception devices worth £175,000; radio frequency jammers; covert cameras hidden in smoke detectors, a pen, sunglasses, even men's ties; a horde of fake identity documents and equipment to make more.

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Any useful parts from Hebridean Isles will end up in a large CalMac warehouse in Gourock - an Aladdin's cave of ferry equipment that is used to keep the fleet going.

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An earlier court case in 2014 heard from one victim - who visited Denning's home in Winchester in Hampshire in the 1970s - and described it as an "Aladdin's cave" full of pornographic magazines.

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“It was really like an Aladdin’s cave of homeware. People enjoyed exploring there,” Saunders said.

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So after he died in January 2022 with no heirs, the speculation began: What would happen to the collections he had amassed over the decades and squirreled away in his homes in White Plains, N.Y., and Durham, N.C., an Aladdin’s cave of artifacts that represented a certain style of luxury in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries?

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