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on the cheap
Idioms and Phrases
Economically, at very little cost, as in We're traveling around Europe on the cheap . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Rebecca Harding, a trade economist and chief executive of the Centre for Economic Security think tank, said China could easily source more supplies from Russia, where it has already been buying oil on the cheap as the Kremlin seeks to fund its war effort.
Unison eastern regional officer Lucas Bertholdi-Saad said the healthcare support workers were "essential to the running of the NHS", but the trust had used them "to provide care on the cheap".
The French company's predominant role in the uranium sector had for years fuelled resentment among many Nigériens, amidst claims that the French company was buying their uranium on the cheap, despite periodic renegotiations of the export deal.
“I love the piece so much, and I wanted the full flavor bouquet of what was intended, and I was concerned that anybody who said they wanted to do it was going to do it on the cheap,†he said.
Once they all connected, a scene began to coalesce around an abandoned church in Athens where the band was living on the cheap.
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