knick-knack

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"The one thing that Bob liked was there's not a lot of knick-knack shops to go in.

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  • Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta awards in his knick-knack cabinet to make way for a coveted Tony award. —  WN.com - Articles related to It's hammer time! Swashbuckling Russell Crowe fights the French in dramatic fight scenes for new ...
  • Perhaps no pharmaceutical company knick-knack is stranger than objects featuring a "superhero mascot" created by —  Improbable Research
  • You have a Chinese knick-knack hanging on your rear view mirror. —  Asian
  • But in actual fact there was a violent collision, the religious knick-knack (which you already knew was in the car) was thus jolted from its stuck position and catapulted across the interior of the vehicle to land - well it HAD to land somewhere, didn't it? —  Planet Atheism
  • Many of the staff in the hundreds of booths at Shanghai's exhibition hall this week were busier talking or playing games on their laptops and mobile phones than trying to sell their products, which included clothing, accessories, housewares, basketware - just about any type of handicraft or knick-knack. —  Charlotte Observer: * Home Page
 

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