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 Oliver [pseud.] Onions
"No, but I have the reach-me-down trousers of an inferior quality to those worn by the village postman."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
Every reach-me-down that had been hanging these twenty years flapped about their limbs, hindering their progress.
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
