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"Cheap at ____ the price" means that something costs very little.


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The saying and the explanation as written here makes no sense to me.
The saying that I know is 'It would be cheap at twice the price.', meaning that it is so cheap you could double the price and it still would be cheap.
 

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I completely agree! Cheap at half the price doesn't mean anything. I can understand people getting it muddled but the idiom dictionary says half the price as well....how ridiculous.
 

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Any body tells me meaning of "cheap mentality" ?
You have posted this question elsewhere in the forum. Please post questions only once.
 

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The saying and the explanation as written here makes no sense to me.
The saying that I know is 'It would be cheap at twice the price.', meaning that it is so cheap you could double the price and it still would be cheap.

That would be logical, but idiomatic expressions don't always follow logic.
 

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The saying and the explanation as written here makes no sense to me.
The saying that I know is 'It would be cheap at twice the price.', meaning that it is so cheap you could double the price and it still would be cheap.

I have to agree with the non sense remark.'It would be cheap at half the price' is saying that the item is therefore expensive.
This would mean that saying 'It would be cheap at twice the price' means that an item is already cheap and even if you doubled the price it would still be cheap.
 

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That would be logical, but idiomatic expressions don't always follow logic.


They usually seem to be quite logical to me. Maybe its my eccentricity? I agree with the twice the price folks's.
 

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No, idioms are not always logical, though I tend not to use the illogical ones.
For example, both "I couldn't care less" and "I could care less" mean the same thing to different people. (I believe the second version in AmE).
 

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The saying and the explanation as written here makes no sense to me.
The saying that I know is 'It would be cheap at twice the price.', meaning that it is so cheap you could double the price and it still would be cheap.

I have heard the saying 'a bargain at twice the price' which expresses the same idea as being cheap at twice the price.
Something being cheap at half the price would change the meaning entirely.
 

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Cheap at half the price is used as a phrase in the UK, though it makes no sense.
 
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