off-the-peg

The best interpretation of the laws of physics as we understand them is that we live in an off-the-peg universe.

Welcome to the Multiverse John Gribbin 2011

While high-street investors usually pay charges of about 5% for off-the-peg products, high-net-worth individuals can have products put together on a bespoke basis that will give them exposure to whatever derivatives they want, with whatever levels of risk they want to take, subject, of course to what the market is pricing in at any time.

The Structured Promise John Greenwood 2011

'In London I buy my shirts off-the-peg at Hilditch & Key.'

Graydon Carter Edward Helmore 2011

The shops have been selling costumes for weeks, and the streets are teeming with off-the-peg Darth Vaders, and Harry Potters.

A pleasing terror « Write Anything 2009

But for straightforward off-the-peg services, such as selling a house, it ought to be possible for the high-street big boys to provide a faster, cheaper service.

Even Mervyn King is losing faith in Osborne 2011

In London I buy my shirts off-the-peg at Hilditch & Key .

Graydon Carter Edward Helmore 2011

Fergus O'Hare provides a clamorous soundtrack of birds and booms; John Napier's design features projections by Jon Driscoll and Gemma Carrington which sometimes glow alluringly – the domestic interiors are particularly inviting – but are often off-the-peg sepia: at one dramatically low moment, soldiers march on the spot in front of a photograph of the trenches, while an account of what is going on is delivered by our hero.

Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister Susannah Clapp 2010

"We've seen a determined swing back to tailored clothes and a more grown-up style of dressing," observed Patrick Grant, owner of the Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons and the off-the-peg line E.

Menswear's Young Bloods Kick It Old School Edward Helmore 2011

Typically cut with a slightly forward collar, this is just one of hundreds of weaves and fabrics the firm offers in off-the-peg and made-to-measure shirting.

Handsome Haberdashery 2012

Badly tailored suits, like many off-the-peg numbers, will have closed buttons at the wrist.

No Excuses for a Cheap Suit 2010