come cheap
idiom
: to be available at a low price
—usually used in negative statements
These materials don't come cheap.
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The cards don’t come cheap, with Nvidia’s top-of-the-line GeForce RTX 4090 currently retailing around $1,700.
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Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
All of this janky electrical goodness did not come cheap.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
There are also a serious number of them: the ratio of staff to guest room is an astonishing 3:1.
Rooms and suites
There are 120 rooms and suites to choose from, none of which are the same, and none of which come cheap.
—Leaf Arbuthnot, The Week Uk, theweek, 10 June 2024
The privilege of using the route does not come cheap: the United States and ISAF recently renegotiated their transshipment agreements with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan to permit two-way transit of non-lethal supplies (i.e., not armored vehicles or guns) through their territories.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2012
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Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
All of this janky electrical goodness did not come cheap.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
There are also a serious number of them: the ratio of staff to guest room is an astonishing 3:1.
Rooms and suites
There are 120 rooms and suites to choose from, none of which are the same, and none of which come cheap.
—Leaf Arbuthnot, The Week Uk, theweek, 10 June 2024
The privilege of using the route does not come cheap: the United States and ISAF recently renegotiated their transshipment agreements with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan to permit two-way transit of non-lethal supplies (i.e., not armored vehicles or guns) through their territories.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2012
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“Come cheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20cheap. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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