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What on Earth does cheap at half the price mean? (in Phrasefinder Bulletin Board): 'Cheap at half the price' is understood to mean 'reasonably priced' and if people understand that meaning why worry about logical niceties? It was never intended to be taken seriously and is a pun on the meaningful phrase 'cheap at twice the price', intended either humorously or in order to deceive
cheaper price or lower price cheaper rate or lower rate Somehow it really grates me when people say that something is at a "cheaper more expensive price" or "cheaper more expensive rate" My understanding is that prices and rates can be lower or higher, whilst products services can be cheaper more expensive
A word for price after tax and service charge but before discount 10 Taken from here: The net price is the price pre-tax, and the gross price should be the price including tax backed up by here: you know a price after tax (the Gross price) but want to find out the price before tax (the Net price) So, I would say that : $100 = initial price $110 = Gross price $100 = Net price $95 = Discount price $105
word choice - Exact a price versus extract a price - English . . . A ruthless bargainer may indeed "extract a price" from a hesitant but desperate seller under duress—but in the less extortionate sense of simply imposing a price, "exact a price" seems less tendentious
meaning - Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue -- what . . . Yeah, that's about it It means that virtue may be discussed and openly advocated, but vice must not be; that is to say, virtue is unmarked and vice is marked This is the basis of all journalism, of course, and if this weren't the case, the word hypocrisy itself would be meaningless Oh, and it's a quotation by Oscar Wilde
In the market or on the market - English Language Usage Stack . . . Generally speaking, only the commodity itself is on the market, while the traders themselves and other aspects of the trade are in the market So one puts one’s pork bellies on the market at the lowest price in the market in the market : in the position of being a potential buyer <in the market for a house> on the market : available for purchase; also : up for sale <put their house on the
meaning - Differences between price point and price - English . . . Price point means a point on a scale of possible prices at which something might be marketed; its meaning is different from the meaning of price, which is (principally, but not only) the amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something People can use a phrase used in a specific context and give it a different, or a wider
Varies or vary in this sentence - English Language Usage Stack . . . I believe that you are right and that "the types of lights people use varies" is ungrammatical If we parse this fragment, we get two clauses, the main clause "the types of lights vary " and the subordinate relative clause " (which that) people use", where which that is the object of the verb use and has been omitted The sentence in the article is a mistake which could have been avoided with