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
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
A drama conceived in this reach-me-down fashion will scarcely have the breath of life in it.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William
I think Cummings looks rather an ass, but that is partly due to his patronising ‘the three-and-six-one-price hat company,’ and wearing a reach-me-down frock-coat.
From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George
