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单词 cheap and nasty
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cheap and nasty
a. That may be bought at small cost; bearing a relatively low price; inexpensive. Opposed to dear. cheap and nasty: of low price and bad quality; inexpensive but with the disadvantage of being unsuitable to one's purposes; hence cheap-and-nastiness.
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1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 24 Of mete and drynke there was grete pleynte Nothynge I wanted were it chepe or dere.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 24 In these Ilands, fruit is cheape and delicate.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. i. 9 The silks of France are better and cheaper than those of England. View more context for this quotation
1822 C. M. Young Let. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) III. 312 Elliston has abandoned the cheap and nasty system, and adopted the liberal one!
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 166 Stereo, abbreviated from stereotype, one of the cheap-and-nasty manufactures in this country, the pages being usually left incorrect and blunderous, in pursuance of the saving plan which first suggested casting them in stereo.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 416/2 On the top of the ‘cheap and nasty’, did you never pass through Birmingham?
1832 in C. M. Wakefield Life T. Attwood (1885) xiv. 231 (List of the banners..in the procession into Birmingham, May 28, 1832) Cheap Government, Cheap Religion, and Cheap Bread.
1841 R. W. Emerson Compensation in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 114 Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labour.
1867 T. Carlyle Shooting Niagara vii, in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) VII. 226Cheap and nasty’; there is a pregnancy in that poor vulgar proverb, which I wish we better saw and valued!
1884 J. Rae Contemp. Socialism 105 The taste of the bourgeoisie for the cheap and nasty.
1905 Studio Sept. 368/1 The cheap-and-nastiness of our suburban houses.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 810/1 It does not follow, however, that all woollen cloth is cheap and nasty.
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