on the cheap

Idioms  

1. Economically, at very little cost, as in We're traveling around Europe on the cheap. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

Not only did Cignetti win a title with a team lacking any five-star recruits, he also appears to have done it on the cheap.

From The Wall Street Journal

“New Hampshire is all about citizen legislatures, etc., etc.,” he says, “but it’s also about doing things on the cheap.”

From The Wall Street Journal

So I told the Pickled Onion it says no such thing about the Good Lord smiling on the cheap.

From Literature

“That’s why people buy fake paintings or buy them on the cheap…It’s the hunt for treasure.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"Let me be clear -– this proposal was an attempt to take BlueScope from its shareholders on the cheap," BlueScope chair Jane McAloon said in a statement released late Wednesday.

From Barron's