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
Reach-me-down dresses, reach-me-down scenery, reach-me-down equipments are considered good enough for dramatic masterpieces—are positively preferred to decent and beautiful things because they are so much more theatrical.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various
"Where did he fall?" asked a chap in a reach-me-down overcoat, fringy at the cuffs, "there?" and pointed into the middle of the street.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Bonner, Geraldine
"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 Seaman, Owen, Sir
