cheap : Idioms & Phrases

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cheap money

  • noun credit available at low rates of interest
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cheap shot

  • noun an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person
  • noun an illegal and unsportsmanlike act of unnecessary violence
    • he called a penalty on them when the lineman took a cheap shot at the quarterback
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cheap-jack

  • noun a seller of shoddy goods
    huckster.
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Cheap"-jack`, Cheap"-john` noun (Also<
  • Cheap-jack
  • Cheap-john
)
Definitions
  1. A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
Webster 1913

dirt cheap

  • adjective satellite very cheap
    • a dirt cheap property
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Dog cheap

  • very cheap, a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. Colloq.
Webster 1913

Good cheap

  • literally, good bargain; reasonably cheap.
Webster 1913