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Dog-cheap

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A perversion of the old English god-chepe (a good bargain). French, bon marché (good-cheap or bargain).

“The sack … . would have bought me lights as good-cheap at the dearest chandler’s in Europe.”—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., iii. 3.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dodman
Dodona
Dods (Meg)
Dodson and Fogg
Doe
Doeg
Doff
Dog
Dog and Duck
Dog-cheap
Dog-days
Dog-fall (in wrestling)
Dog-grass (triticum repens)
Dog-head (in machinery)
Dog-headed Tribes
Dog-Latin
Dog-leech (A)
Dog-rose
Dog-sick
Dog-sleep (A)