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单词 pound-shop
释义

pound-shop

See also: pound shop

English

Etymology

Due to the perception of the goods sold in pound shops to be cheap, low-quality versions of more expensive products found elsewhere.

Adjective

pound-shop (comparative more pound-shop, superlative most pound-shop)

  1. (Britain, informal) Low-quality version of something
    • 2021 December 8, Owen Jones, “In Britain’s pound-shop Trumpian administration, rules are for the rest of us”, in The Guardian:
      ...no rational human being should ever trust a single utterance issued by a pound-shop Trumpian administration.

See also

  • Poundland
  • poor man's
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