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dirt-cheap
[ durt-cheep ]
adjective
- very inexpensive:
The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
adverb
- cheaply:
They got it dirt-cheap.
dirt-cheap
adjective
- informal.at an extremely low price
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dirt-cheap1
Idioms and Phrases
Very inexpensive, as in Their house was a real bargain, dirt cheap . Although the idea dates back to ancient times, the precise expression, literally meaning “as cheap as dirt,†replaced the now obsolete dog cheap . [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
Temu and Shein loyalists in particular have already felt the brunt of Trump’s levies against China, with delayed shipping and rising prices weighing down the dirt-cheap retailers and their legions of fans.
And unlike most doctors, these maggots are dirt-cheap and willing to die for your wound.
Still, there are no guarantees that they will be able to compete with the dirt-cheap yards of South Asia.
Many airlines, especially discount carriers, quote a dirt-cheap base fare.
In 1992, Russian troops helped people here beat back nationalists from next-door Moldova and establish the region as a sort of Rhode Island-sized Russia, run by pro-Moscow Russian speakers, defended by a Russia-funded army and security services, and kept afloat economically by a Russia-style currency and dirt-cheap Russian gas — all of this some 400 miles from the nearest Russian border.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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