on the cheap

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

Example Sentences

Stay on the cheap side of the market.

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Nineteen years before that, in 2003, he wrote, “Of course, the problem isn’t Putin, and not those whose interests he was appointed to protect in the Kremlin, and whose interests he protects today. The problem is us, who run to heel at the first shout, fussing pettily, bought up on the cheap.”

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These investors favored homes with a minimum of quirks, buying them on the cheap and stripping them of anything that might hinder a future sale.

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Last week, Amorim said the club would not sell the players on the cheap and would welcome them back into the fold if necessary.

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Immigration-enforcement hardliners like Ira Melhman, with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, counters that an economy that is built on the cheap labor of immigrants degrades conditions for American workers.

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