omnium gatherum
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The result is a swampy omnium gatherum of a book, a disjointed, inchoate and intriguing recital for the negotiation of which the reader desperately needs a map.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is, of course, in very many cases an individuality gained by the "omnium gatherum" of such a mode of furnishing.
From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
She tossed up her little head in conversation with me, and gave me to understand that this party was only an omnium gatherum, not one of the select parties, from which Heaven defend us.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
The relic-hunters had penetrated their omnium gatherum and offered fabulous sums for the quaint old bits they found there.
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
In a very few months, her cheeks were blooming and dimpling with smiles again, and she was telling us how her party was an omnium gatherum.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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