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bring-and-buy sale

noun

  1. an informal sale, often conducted for charity, to which people bring items for sale and buy those that others have brought
“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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Of course it doesn't: News Corp is a multibillion-dollar beast, not a bring-and-buy sale.

Shareholders and customers also complain of "utterly confused" shop layouts, mountains of poor quality clothes "piled up like a bring-and-buy sale", lack of staff, poor bra-fitting services and the company's apparent failure to understand its customers and the clothes they want.

Photograph: Corbis A long lost book of tributes to Byron from the poet's family vault has been discovered at a bring-and-buy sale in Savannah, Georgia.

Photograph: Stephen Shepherd The village of Longborough in Gloucestershire is the epitome of Cotswolds sleepiness, a vision of pastoral English loveliness in which you might expect the most exciting events of the year to be the charity cricket match or the bring-and-buy sale.

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