The Collaborative International Dictionary
Variety store \Variety store\ a retail store selling a wide variety of items, especially of low price, as in a five and ten.
Wikipedia
Five and Ten is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic drama film starring Marion Davies as an heiress and Leslie Howard as the man she loves, though he marries someone else. It is based on the Fannie Hurst novel of the same name.
Usage examples of "five and ten".
Though the vessel's salvos wiped out five and ten robots at a time, sending them flying in heaps of tangled, liquefied wreckage, Xim's machines kept clustering to her, weaponshands blazing, standing their ground.
Though the vessel's salvos wiped out five and ten robots at a time, sending them flying in heaps of tangled, liquefied wreckage, Xim's machines kept clustering to her, weapons-hands blazing, standing their ground.
Now, I didn't play either night, but my Elspeth said something about five and ten bob stakes, so it can't have been much of a high game?