jumble sale

noun

, British.

jumble sale

a sale of miscellaneous articles, usually cheap and predominantly secondhand, in aid of charity US and Canadian equivalentrummage sale

First recorded in 1895–1900

The jumble sale was being held in the schools and all St. Gwithian was there, fighting tooth and nail over the bargains.

Without Love they were nothing—odds and ends, fit for a jumble sale.

Say you went to a jumble sale and bought it; you paid one-and-twopence-halfpenny for it.

As everyone does the same, a stranger passing by would think there must be a 'jumble sale' going on.

That's the right figure, isn't it, for the best things at a jumble sale?

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