Meaning of omnium-gatherum | Babel Free

Definitions

A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.

Examples

“But out of the water he dared not put⟳ his head; for the rain⟳ came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like⟳ shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill⟳ nine museums.”

“We live⟳ in the era of Omnium-Gatherum; all the world's a museum, and men and women are its students. To design⟳ any building in England nowadays is therefore to work⟳ under the eye, so to speak⟳, of the Society of Antiquaries.”

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