hand-me-downs
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"I'm quite lucky, I do have an older child as well, so I've got a lot of hand-me-downs," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Audience: Gen Xers and millennial kids who had boomer hand-me-downs in their toy chests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
I’d always had hand-me-downs from my brother, so the fact that I could buy new golf clubs, I was on top of the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
That equates to 7% of transfers being so-called hand-me-downs, which is the highest share Cotality has recorded since it began tracking the data.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
He’d buy a brand new V-8 car every year hut he couldn’t see the logic in buying new clothes when you got cheap hand-me-downs fior free.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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