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- phrase Humorous reference that something is quite expensive.
- phrase Refers to something being satisfactorily cheap.
Etymologies
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Deliberate transformation of a street trader's cry, 'cheap at twice the price' (informing customers that what he was selling was twice as cheap), into 'cheap at half the price' which would imply that the price was excessive.
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