junk shop

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junk shop

n
1. (Commerce) a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
2. (Commerce) derogatory a shop selling antiques
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Noun1.junk shop - a shop that sells cheap secondhand goods
shop, store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
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Translations
rigattiere [negozio]

junk shop

n (fam) → (bottega di) rigattiere
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Many people say that for a male person, bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes, or decorating Japanese pots with decalcomanie butterflies would be, and these people fling mud at the elegant Englishman, Byng, who wrote a book called THE BRIC-A-BRAC HUNTER, and make fun of him for chasing around after what they choose to call "his despicable trifles"; and for "gushing" over these trifles; and for exhibiting his "deep infantile delight" in what they call his "tuppenny collection of beggarly trivialities"; and for beginning his book with a picture of himself seated, in a "sappy, self-complacent attitude, in the midst of his poor little ridiculous bric-a-brac junk shop."
She became a half worn-out old woman worker and lived with the grandson above a junk shop on a side street in Cincinnati.
The dining table was our best bargain - PS15 in a junk shop. It was covered in shiny varnish but we sanded it down and now it has a lovely matt texture.
Raxabago police station reported that a minor was collecting trash for their junk shop when he discovered the body floating in Estero De Sunog Apog River in Barangay 172, Zone 15, Gagalangin, Tondo at 6:30 a.m.
CEBU CITY -- Government-owned school supplies and history books that were supposed to be distributed for free to students were found to have been sold at a junk shop.
A junk shop in Barangay Baliok, Toril District burned down at around 1:40 a.m.
1 dead, P2 million stolen in Quezon City junk shop heist !-- -- Emmanuel Tupas (The Philippine Star) - February 6, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines Robbers killed an employee of a junk shop and carted away P2.065 million in cash in Quezon City on Monday.
The man, who introduced himself as 'Mel,' buys and sells junk, which he delivers to a nearby junk shop that lends him his P1,000 daily capital.
The two-act play, starring Greek actors Petros Filippidis, Giannis Bezos and Orfeas Avgoustidis, is set in a junk shop. There, three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable Buffalo nickel.
Cath opened her first shop, which she has described as a "glorified junk shop" in 1993 after studying design with Nicky Haslam.
While 'worn' pieces can be a lovely addition, too many can give a junk shop effect.
Annie, in a bid to impress a would-be lover, buys a dusty old painting in a junk shop.
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