What does “없는 거 빼고 다 있다” mean in Korean?

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없는 거 빼고 다 있다 (eomneun geo ppaego da itda)
Korean "has everything" phrase
“they have everything except what they don’t have,” meaning a huge selection

Koreans praise a store or a market with a joke: 없는 거 빼고 다 있다, literally “everything is there except what isn’t there.” It means the selection is so big that you will find whatever you want. 빼다 means “to take out,” so 빼고 means “except.” Use it for a market, a convenience store, or a friend’s fridge, and you will get a smile.

The clip is the classic listing game 시장에 가면 (“if you go to the market”): apples, cherries, squid, crabs, mackerel, each added with the same -도 있고 (“there’s also...”) pattern. Then the host ends the list with 시장에 가면 없는 거 빼고 다 있다. 안녕. The -도 있고 repeats until the list is long enough to justify the punchline. Once you hear 빼고 as “except,” it turns up in 나 빼고 (“without me”) and 숙제 빼고 (“except homework”).

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this A1 Korean listening practice video?

66.7%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Korean words
Most of the words in this video are common Korean words.

How common in written Korean

66.7%
Top 1,000
66.7%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than A1. Here is what they mean.

있고
7×
Not in top 5,000
가면
4×
Not in top 5,000
많다
2×
Not in top 5,000
many; a lot
시장에
2×
Not in top 5,000
오징어도
2×
Not in top 5,000

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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