A miscellaneous receptacle.
1838. [The Administration party includes] old Federalists, the champions of the Hartford Convention, counterfeit Democrats, National Republicans, Antimasons, and Abolitionists. They have been a kind of catch-all, or omnium gatherum.—Mr. Yell of Arkansas in the House of Representatives, April 16: Cong. Globe, p. 275 (Appendix).
1866. I can’t have my study made the general catch-all and menagerie for Rover and Jennie, and her baskets and balls, and for all the family litter.—Mrs. Stowe, ‘Little Foxes,’ p. 27. (N.E.D.)
