pound shopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pound shop (plural pound shops)

1. (UK, Ireland) A shop selling household groceries, toys, gimmicks etc, that are typically priced at a pound each.

   Synonyms: (US) variety store, (US, Canada) dollar store, (US) dime store, (US) five-and-dime, (US) ten-cent store, (AU, NZ) $2 shop

使用する際の注意点

The term is still used in Ireland even though the currency is now the euro.

名詞

pound-shop

1. (attributive, British, informal, derogatory) Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior imitation.

   Synonyms: (Britain) BTEC, (US, Canada) dollar-store, poor man's, (Britain) Poundland, (Britain) Tesco Value, Wish.com; see also Thesaurus:inferior, Thesaurus:low-quality

   • 2021 December 8, Owen Jones, “In Britain’s pound-shop Trumpian administration, rules are for the rest of us”, in The Guardian‎:

     […] no rational human being should ever trust a single utterance issued by a pound-shop Trumpian administration.

   • 2023 November 9, Daniel Boffey, quoting Colum Eastwood, “Braverman clarifies Northern Ireland comments amid angry criticism”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Colum Eastwood, the MP for Foyle and leader of the SDLP, the nationalist party whose founding member, John Hume, won a Nobel prize for his championing of the peace process in Northern Ireland, called Braverman a “pound-shop Enoch Powell”.