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Meanings of cracker-barrel in English

Characteristic of country life.

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Examples for "homespun"
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Other computer companies, however, have tried the homespun direct-marketing approach and failed.
Wired
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TESTER embroidered in crewels in shades of blue on white homespun linen.
The Development of Embroidery in America
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Underwear and sleeping garments were made of the natural colored homespun cloth.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
4
The men wore shoes made of bark and homespun shirts and coats.
Resurrection
5
Rawhide was used in place of lines, and homespun garments were uniform.
My Native Land / The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, a...
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The 48-minute address was classic Clinton: folksy, funny and at times professorial.
Reuters
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Their motel has been taken over by pensioners -folksy tributes remain.
The Irish Times
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A young couple check into a folksy B&B on a winter's night.
The Guardian
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Marguerite Roberts put some perky, folksy spin on it four decades ago.
Reuters
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It is not as fashionable as Coachella or as folksy as Bonnaroo.
The Guardian
Usage of cracker-barrel in English
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You just be sure and tell everyone back home that I ain't no cracker-barrel fishball.
The Naked God
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As each guest surfaced from the cracker-barrel he fielded them with a patronising show of interest.
The apocalypse reader
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Plot holes, cracker-barrel philosophizing and the decision to set a climactic scene offscreen serve to undo all their fine work.
Reuters
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I'll have no grasping tyrants sittin' 'round on my cracker-barrels!
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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"You said," he proceeded, "that you wouldn't have them sitting 'round on your cracker-barrels."
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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"Can we skip the cracker-barrel stuff?"
The hellfire club