2006-09-07 20:13:24 · 8 answers · asked by viewAskew 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
local farmers, or schools, hospitals etc with large car parks or parking space for cars, vans etc, charge sellers to set up stalls. Most people wanting to get rid of unwanted items, clothes, chiana etc take all this stuff in their "car boots" to one of these venues and sell their goods. Some people now make a living out of it, they are popular with buyers, because programs like the antiques road show, often have people who have brought an item for 50p or £1 and it turns out to be worth hundreds! BEWARE of imitation china, so called antique toys etc, a lot of fakes are now to be found at car boot sales. In amercia they tend to hold more garage sales than we do in this country.
Car boot translates in to Amercian as the trunk!
2006-09-07 20:17:58 · answer #1 · answered by Breeze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A car boot sale is Great Britain's version of the United State's Yard Sale.
2006-09-07 20:16:39 · answer #2 · answered by toomeymimi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the U. K. a "car boot sale" is the same as a "garage sale" or a "yard sale" in the U.S.
They are all sales of stuff people want to get rid off.
2006-09-07 20:39:09 · answer #3 · answered by Hi y´all ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the boot of the car is called the trunk in North America. A car boot sale is like a garage sale or maybe flea market.
2006-09-08 05:08:10 · answer #4 · answered by borscht 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A kind of Garden sale done at the car
2006-09-07 21:08:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trunk considering that's surprising. Trunks have been carried on the lower back of horse drawn autos to boot as early autos. "Boot" refers back to the cabinet area for a convertible automobile. hence in case you haven't any longer have been given a convertible, you haven't any longer have been given a boot. you have a trunk. human beings not often carried "boots" on the backs of their carriages or automobiles, till they have been in a TRUNK. Hood considering that's surprising. "Bonnet" is used supposedly because of the fact the HOOD covers the "head" or heads of the engine. of direction, it additionally covers each and every thing else under the HOOD.
2016-12-12 04:39:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wher you sell the items you want to sell ou of the boot of ur car
2006-09-07 21:39:46 · answer #7 · answered by gem_93 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's when a British packrat dumps the trunk of his car onto the driveway and tries to sell the junk...
2006-09-07 20:17:07 · answer #8 · answered by Angela M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋