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
You and I would have called it, quite simply, a reach-me-down.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
"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
The wise argument we hear being urged in a railway-carriage or at a dinner-table is merely an intellectual reach-me-down purchased at a book-stall for the modest price of one penny.
From The Curse of Education by Gorst, Harold Edward
