on the cheap
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Prepositional phrase edit
- (informal) Synonym of cheaply or economically.
- 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:
- (informal) Too cheaply or economically, inexpensive and affordable to the point of substandard quality.
- Well, if you buy things on the cheap what do you expect?
Translations edit
too economically
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References edit
- “on the cheap” (US) / “on the cheap” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “on the cheap”, in Collins English Dictionary.