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on the cheap

on the cheap idiom

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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