cracker-barrel

cracker-barrel
/krak"euhr bar'euhl/, adj.
of or suggesting the simple rustic informality and directness thought to be characteristic of life in and around a country store: homespun, cracker-barrel philosophy.
[1875-80, Amer.; adj. use of cracker barrel, around which rural people supposedly converse in old-style country stores]

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