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
"No, but I have the reach-me-down trousers of an inferior quality to those worn by the village postman."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
She was past forty, with thin hair over her pads, and with a false plait; her linen was doubtful in color, and she had evidently bought her unfashionable dress at a reach-me-down shop.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 by Maupassant, Guy de
"Where did he fall?" asked a chap in a reach-me-down overcoat, fringy at the cuffs, "there?" and pointed into the middle of the street.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Bonner, Geraldine
