Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. idiomatic Economically, especially if too economically.
Examples
“Stop scaring me," she said in an exaggerated monotone, "or I might just make wee-wee right here on the cheap carpeting.”
“She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade, just beneath it stood the photograph of Lily Bart, looking out imperially on the cheap gim-cracks, the cramped furniture of the little room.”
“So the Mercantilist writers looked on the cheap agricultural and industrial labor of England and gravely nodded approval.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘on the cheap’.
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Dumbisms
Words and phrases I don't like. They are dumb.
re-look, good to go, reinvent the wheel, do what, ducks in a row, re-up, twofer, irregardless, repurpose, ballyhoo, bells and whistles, webinar and 55 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for on the cheap.
thtownse I am surprised no one else has listed this overused annoying phrase. Maybe they were afraid of making me angry. But I listed it and now I have made myself angry. Aug 7, 2008