have a rummage
idiom
chiefly British
: to look in order to try to find something : to search
Have a rummage through the box and see if you can find the toy you're looking for.
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Rummage sale: Stearns Homestead will have a rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 22-23 at the homestead, 6975 Stearns Road in Parma.
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Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
Holly House will have a rummage sale Feb. 9 to 13, 2022, that is arranged like shopping in a department store.
—Jennifer Shapiro-Sacks, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
Holly House will have a rummage sale Feb. 9 to 13, 2022, that is arranged like shopping in a department store.
—Jennifer Shapiro-Sacks, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
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