"We don't want specialists in bread bin design.
She had made a bread bin out of a cardboard box.
They don't want to look as if they are driving around on an old bread bin".
There were boxes of stuff for his new life, a new tea caddy, spoons, a bread bin.
And if you rummage in the bottom of your bread bin, you'll probably find an unloved lump of stale bread.
For example, copper bread bins lined with tin were used; they were often richly decorated with chased motifs or brass fittings.
Ms. Spark's first novel was published when she was 39, and after that she supplied a stream of slender novels and enigmatic short stories peopled with such curiosities as narrators from beyond the grave, flying saucers, grandmotherly smugglers with bread bins full of diamond-studded loaves and individuals of so little substance that they disappear when the door closes.
Some people may feel a twinge of sadness at some of the items that went the other way – VHS video players, MiniDisc players, local newspapers, nests of tables, bread bins, and jigsaw puzzles have all been removed from the basket in recent years.
Ceramic vegetable peelers, candles that change color as they burn, ironing boards, metal garbage cans, thermoses, closed-circuit television cameras, de-icers, hair-straightening irons, bread bins, rubber bands, shower-curtain hooks, CDs, cans of paint, children's underwear, wrapping paper — all displayed seemingly at random, all just an aisle or two away.
These dressers were popular by the 1920s, and usually incorporated a flour sifter, flour bin, sugar bin, metal-lined bread drawer, rolling pin, "household wants" indicator and storage jars.
