play it cheap
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With blind eagerness, judged by subsequent action and indifference, our Government seems to have essayed to play the part of philanthropist, guide, and friend, but to "play it cheap", as if phrases could alter facts, or high-sounds declarations could complete, in a moment, what centuries elsewhere have been none too long ago."
- "It was no less grateful to the British people in their honest desire to play the part of guide, philosopher, and friend to the people of Egypt, but to play it cheap."
- "It may cost politicians their necks for giving them those reasons, but some politicians have moved in and out of office-and some have stayed there-by playing it cheap."
- "it plays it cheap, it plays it safe. The disc is a Columbia TriStar Home Video Deluxe Widescreen Presentation (89546, $40)."
- "Then, mistakenly, we played it cheap by having some of our Chinese employees in New York translate it."
- "I played it cheap with my In Rainbows purchase, but many committed Radiohead fans were more generous."