reach-me-down
Example Sentences
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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
She would know what life meant to that skimpy woman in the green plaid, would inspect that new specimen, the jaunty boy who made his good clothes look like an ordinary "reach-me-down."
From The Story of Louie by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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 Bell, Clive
Every reach-me-down that had been hanging these twenty years flapped about their limbs, hindering their progress.
From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
