variety store

[variety store] {n.}

A store that sells many different kinds of things, especially items that are fairly small and in everyday use.

* /I went into a variety store and bought some paint./

* /Five-and-ten cent stores are a kind of variety store./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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