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Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Unimportant extra: it’s not a calque in British English, because we don’t use it (to the best of my knowledge). Like a potluck, we have the concept but not a word for it, and we don’t use the American phrases either

We have a car boot sale, but that’s literal

There’s probably regional exceptions

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