reach-me-down
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All this might have created a reach-me-down revolutionary.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
Yet sentence after sentence in the dialogue is so well-worn that it's threadbare: a patchwork of salt-of-the-earth, reach-me-down cockney phrases.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
Get it into your heads—Here was a prosperous reach-me-down person of the sort you will find on any political platform, standing for Parliament or seconding a vote of thanks.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
She was past forty, with thin hair over her pads, and with a false plait; her linen was doubtful in color, and she had evidently bought her unfashionable dress at a reach-me-down shop.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 by Guy de Maupassant
To be fine, he believed, men must think and feel for themselves and live by their own sense of truth and beauty, not by collective wisdom or reach-me-down ideals.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
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