| 词汇 | dirt-cheap |
| 释义 | dirt cheap adjective, adverb uk /ˌdɜːt ˈtʃiːp/ us /ˌdɝːt ˈtʃiːp/ very cheap非常便宜的 costing less money than expected cheapThe meal was cheaper than I expected. affordableThere's very little affordable housing around here. inexpensiveThey sell inexpensive children's clothes. reasonableI thought the food was very reasonable. dirt cheapMost of the books they sell are dirt cheap. Costing little or no money affordable housing budget catchpenny chargeless cheap comp costless economical economically mates' rate off-peak small change something something for nothingidiom super-cheap supersaver there's no such thing as a free lunchidiom ultra-cheap worthless worthlessly A whole packing case full, and he'll sell them dirt cheap. Fifty cents apiece and dirt cheap. It's a mighty fine place, and they do say it's going dirt cheap." She won't pay forty a month, although she agrees with me that for a furnished house in a location like this it's dirt cheap. The upshot of his plans was the existing work of art, which Thompson considered matchless, and pronounced "dirt cheap, if he had even given the fellow a seven years' lease of the entire premises." Examples of dirt cheapdirt cheap They would have been priced out of existence years ago by dirtcheap competition from the far east and from low-cost countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The system was designed 20 or 30 years ago, when everyone thought that electricity was going to be dirtcheap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These suits are entering the country dirtcheap, and this must be checked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because the market has been flooded, assets are being sold dirtcheap, so in every respect the city's ratepayers lose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Compared with that, coal is dirtcheap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She is getting them dirtcheap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The medical application was never widespread, the standard nitroglycerine being faster acting and almost literally dirtcheap; oral nitrates in any case being only palliative, not an effective treatment. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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