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)
- (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