Wiktionary
rag-and-bone shop
n. (context British English) A dealership selling cheap unwanted second-hand goods, or bric-a-brac, that have been collected for nothing as disposable items.
Usage examples of "rag-and-bone shop".
Thought and feeling trimmed into coherence in a work of art are still far from the reality, still far from the agonizing confusion that rises like a miasma in what a great poet has called the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
The foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart was what Darcourt had once called the Gypsy camp, and Maria had been angry with him, because it was so true.