cheap at half the price

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What does cheap at half the price mean?

Quite expensive.

Where does cheap at half the price come from?

Deliberate transformation of a street trader's cry, cheap at twice the price (informing customers that what he was selling would still be cheap even if it cost twice as much), into cheap at half the price which would imply that the price was excessive.

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