dog cheap
Example Sentences
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Well, three glasses; here it is, you dog, and its dog cheap, too.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
Very cheap, said Ben, three large rolls for three-pence: quite dog cheap!
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
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 William Dean Howells
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
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 Adam White
