Dirt Cheap

Meaning of Idiom ‘Dirt Cheap’
When something is dirt cheap it is very inexpensive. 1


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Examples Of Use
“You won’t believe what I found at a garage sale. An autographed Stephen King novel. It was dirt cheap, too!”

“Fifteen dollars a month for such a great service is dirt cheap.”

“Once I found a pair of Levis jeans in a barn that was from the 1890s! The owner was willing to sell them to me dirt cheap but I didn’t realize how valuable they were. I thought they were just a ratty old pair of pants!”

Origin
This idiom literally means “as cheap as dirt.” It replaced an older expression in the early 1800s, dog cheap, no longer used today. 2,3


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