dog cheap

Example Sentences

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I think upon the whole, Dunshunner, though it’s letting them go dog cheap, that we ought to sell half our shares at the present premium, whilst there is a certainty of getting it.”

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various

He'd be dog cheap for it," said Davis; "he's one of those lazy beggars that never wear out.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

They got the pictures dog cheap, as Burton said, for Ludlow was just beginning then, and his reputation which has never since become cloud-capt, was a tender and lowly plant.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean

Brandenburg is sold to him at Constance, during the great Council, for about 200,000l. of our money, worth perhaps a million in that day; still, with its capabilities, "dog cheap."

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

For instance, we say of a very cheap article, that it is "dog cheap."

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam