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Перевод: grocer
[существительное] бакалейщик ; торговец бакалейными товарами; продуктовый магазин
Тезаурус:
- These provisions were left for collection by a local grocer on the dry stone wall by the single road that winds through the dale, a long and difficult walk from Low Birk Hatt.
- Not surprising, when the corner-shop grocer is selling cabbage for 40% of the supermarket price.
- Then the grocer who lived in the third house shot himself."
- Men who only went into a shop for "baccy", matches or a paper, were sent round to the local grocer's and butcher's shops to buy up everything that wasn't nailed down.
- The grocer would come to the house for the orders of his regular customers, and these would be promptly delivered.
- Of course, in practice, things are more complicated, as the Moroccan Swasa saying has it on brothers running a grocer shop:
- During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d: a price just substantial enough to warrant a "Thank you" when given free to a pub or grocer's store customer, and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them.
- When he goes inside, he sees the local grocer with a rather oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither of them understands, and one shabby little book containing corrupt texts of a number of religious lyrics, mostly bad, and in very small print.
- An English grocer in south London, for example, seems to have more in common with a grocer in Berlin or Delhi or Yokohama than one in sixteenth-century London; such common sense is politically dangerous in a nationalist world.
- These days, the average Brit's idea of a crime was a drunken assault on a Pakistan grocer.
- In the late 19th century businesses were varied - tailor and insurance agent, saddler and parish clerk, carrier, shoemaker, wheelwright, pig jobber, taxidermist, doctor, grocer, miller, blacksmith, bricklayer, butcher, cattle dealer, five farms, market garden and three public houses.
- Henry carried on the milling and baking side, Thomas was the corn dealer and Edward the dairy man and grocer.
- The two large pubs, the little Indian grocer, and the shabby peeling premises which offered dry-cleaning were relics of an earlier era, but both restaurants, on the other hand, were new and forbiddingly smart.
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