| 单词 | to be cheap served |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be cheap served 6. as cheap as dirt: exceedingly cheap(ly) (colloquial); hence dirt-cheap adj. Cf. the earlier dog cheap adj. to be cheap of a thing (Scottish): not to be over-paid in respect of, to get less than one's deserts (in the way of retribution, etc.). So to be cheap served. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [adjective] > cheap > extremely cheap dog cheap1526 dagger-cheap1592 as cheap as dirta1817 dirt-cheap1821 throwaway1887 a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. ix. 190 All the honour of the family he held as cheap as dirt . View more context for this quotation 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 53 [Cumbrian loq.] She should hae been boorned aloive, an' cheap o't. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 304 If he loses by us a' thegither, he is e'en cheap o't. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxvi. 288 ‘I sold myself,’ said Mr. Bumble..‘I went very reasonable—cheap, dirt cheap.’ 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. xxxi. 228 They're as cheap as dirt. 1845 E. Robinson Whitehall II. xvii. 184 Excommunication and public penance, and cheap of it. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. xix. 209 Oh! let that pass: he is cheap served. 1918 Svartengren Intensifying Similes 346 Cheap's dirt. < as lemmas |
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