dirt cheap

See also: dirt-cheap

English

Should silver be considered a precious metal, given that it is dirt cheap compared to e.g. rhodium, diamond, endohedral fullerene, or californium?

Alternative forms

• dirt-cheap

Adjective

dirt cheap (comparative more dirt cheap, superlative most dirt cheap)

1. (informal) Very cheap; easily affordable.
   • 2023, Flossie Caerwynt, Migration, Community and Identity‎^[1]:

     Plus there were so many people wanting to move to the countryside that the little places which were dirt cheap suddenly became not dirt cheap.

Translations

easily affordable

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 平到爛／平到烂 (peng⁴ dou³ laan⁶)

• Dutch: spotgoedkoop (nl)
• Finnish: sikahalpa
• German: spottbillig (de)
• Irish: an-saor, ar shladmhargadh
• Italian: regalato (it)
• Polish: tani jak barszcz m
• Russian: за бесце́нок (ru) (za bescénok), по дешёвке (po dešóvke), копе́ечный (ru) (kopéječnyj), грошо́вый (ru) (grošóvyj)
• Vietnamese: rẻ mạt

Adverb

dirt cheap (comparative more dirt cheap, superlative most dirt cheap)

1. (informal) Very cheaply; at an easily affordable price.
   • 1976, AC/DC (lyrics and music), “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”:

     Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap.