Smithfield bargain
English edit
Noun edit
Smithfield bargain (plural Smithfield bargains)
- (obsolete) A bargain in which the buyer of something is taken advantage of; a rip-off. [17th–19th c.]
- (obsolete) A marriage made for convenience, especially for financial reasons. [17th–19th c.]
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals, V.1:
- Why, is it not provoking, when I thought we were coming to the prettiest distress imaginable, to find myself made a mere Smithfield bargain of at last?