dog cheap

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Oxford Street Chapel, the home of a sort of free-for-all religion, became a general receiver for all these organizations and for reformatory work generally and eloquence was dog-cheap.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

You've got a comfortable home, and dog-cheap, too.

From Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life by Alger, Horatio

The nearest to the Cheronaean in virtue and wisdom is Trajan, who holds all the gods dog-cheap.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Stanihurst has described a fair in Dublin, and another in Waterford, where he says the wares were "dog-cheap."

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

The place seemed dog-cheap at the time; but after a while it began to dawn upon Hewson that the Yankee had the better of the deal.

From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir