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pound shop
noun
A shop selling household groceries, toys, gimmicks etc, that are typically priced at a pound each.
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Did you get your crystal ball from the pound shop?
In fact, they now consider themselves experts on every pound shop in London.
But in any case, the march of the pound shop shows no signs of slowly.
I suppose you could call him a pound shop Ben Elton".
He is a pound shop Enoch Powell, and we've got to watch him," Brand said.
Large mixing bowl: mine is a big metal bowl from a pound shop.
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Notwithstanding Brand's fine line about his being a "pound-shop Enoch Powell, Nigel Farageescapeded pretty unscathed.
What was worse, the lifestyle I had chosen – that of a pound-shop weekend warrior – did not make me happy.
A combination of choreographed dance routines, a troupe of dancers (when money allows) and the coup de grâce: pound-shop push lights that are strapped to their chests.
Yet the intellectual ancestry of the leave cause has much more interesting and coherent roots than Farage's pound-shop Anglo-Trumpery.
She had a dreadful vitality, jigging about, shouting "Let's hear you seeeng!" and flashing pound-shop dentures at an almost empty room.
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