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What's the story behind 小間物屋を開く = to vomit? jisho.org defines []{}[]{}[]{}[]{}[]{} as "to vomit", "to spew". What's the story behind this funny term? How would you express it in English?

As the link in the comment indicates is a vendor who sells a lot of things like cosmetics, everyday goods, etc. They often displays their goods in very spread out manner on a cloth (). You can visualize it like thus:

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The expression is a euphemism for puking out so much stuff that it's like you are opening a and displaying a wide variety of goods. In particular if you are puking out partially digested foods, it would have a particular similarity to goods on display. This expression is also sometimes used as or as well as and , but I think in general this expression and its variants are not very well known/used.

The closest English expression I can think of is **_puking out your guts_**.

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