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    1 month 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