cheap at half the priceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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cheap at half the price

1. (humorous) Quite expensive.
   • 2007, Gordon Hughes, Hard Drive!: As the Disc Turns, page 76:

     After breakfast, Shirley and Gordon walked down the street to a shopping mall to look at fancy clothes and high priced jewelry. "Cheap at half the price," Gordon observed. Shirley smiled.

2. (from misunderstanding) Satisfactorily cheap.
   • 2001, Roy Holland, C. H. Muller, Flakes of Dark and Light: Tales from Southern Africa and Elsewhere, page 110:

     After he'd convinced you you'd only got one leg – the left – he'd sell you a gross of right-footed shoes. "Cheap at half the price! A real bargain." Afterwards, you'd feel you'd been done a favour to, and obligingly walk off with a limp.

参照

• Michael Quinion (2004) “Cheap at half the price”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.