dirt-cheap, a. (adv.)
(ˈdɜːtˌtʃiːp)
[See cheap a. 6.]
As cheap as dirt; exceedingly cheap. Hence dirt-ˈcheapness.
| 1821 Blackw. Mag. VIII. 616 Dirt-cheap, indeed, it was, as well it might. 1849 Dickens Dav. Copp. xxii, Five bob..and dirt-cheap. 1883 Pall Mall G. 26 Oct. 5/1 It appears likely that November will bring an alteration in that dirt-cheapness of money of which brokers and bankers now complain. 1886 H. F. Lester Under two Fig Trees 102 I'll do it cheap, that I will,..dirt cheap. 1891 T. Hardy Tess i, I was no more than the commonest, dirt-cheapest feller in the parish. |