reach-me-down
Example Sentences
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All this might have created a reach-me-down revolutionary.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2013
Yet sentence after sentence in the dialogue is so well-worn that it's threadbare: a patchwork of salt-of-the-earth, reach-me-down cockney phrases.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2011
To be fine, he believed, men must think and feel for themselves and live by their own sense of truth and beauty, not by collective wisdom or reach-me-down ideals.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
The engineer called up the new stoker, a tall young fellow in the flannel shirt open at the neck, the loose reach-me-down, and the black-lead coated trousers affected by his kind.
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Strang, Herbert
To-day, my friend, thou art a reach-me-down, And if I tossed thee through the casement yonder Where wouldst thou end thy days?
From L'Aiglon by Rostand, Edmond
