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Updated: July 27, 2025
"Well, young sir," said he, gazing thoughtfully up at the blue sky "since you are you, an' nobody else an' ax me on so fair a morning, wi' the song o' birds filling the air we'll charge you only well say ten shillings: say eight, say seven-an'-six say five theer, make it five shillings, an' dirt-cheap at the price, too."
So he bought one of those little hand-books which the founder of the Thomsonian system sold dirt-cheap at twenty dollars apiece, and which told how to cure or kill in every case.
Its growth rate has leveled off and it has developed a mild case of deflation. In previous centuries, Europe exported its excess labor and surplus capacity to its colonies an economic system known as "mercantilism". The markets of central, southern, and eastern Europe West Europe's hinterland are replete with abundant raw materials and dirt-cheap, though well-educated, labor.
"Ah! and you left me that morning, a fine, upstanding young country cove, but to-day ah, to-day you are a bang up blood a gent, inside and out, a-riding of a magnificent 'oss and all on account o' follering the instructions in that 'ere blessed tome as I sold you for five bob! And dirt-cheap at the money!"
Blair had left courtesy and endurance in France, as was evinced by the way he bent closer to Helen, to speak low, with terrible passion. "If I had it to do over again I'd see you and your kind your dirt-cheap crowd of painted hussies where you belong in the clutch of the Huns!" Miss Amanda Hill, teacher in the Middleville High School, sat wearily at her desk.
"Oh, well, as I say, I'll let it go reasonable to a feller who'd do the assessment, on account o' my having that other property. Say three thousand dollars." The Colonel shook his head. "Why, it's dirt-cheap! Two men can take a hundred and fifty dollars a day out of that claim without outside help. And properly worked, the summer ought to show forty thousand dollars."
There was a terrible flippancy in the irrepressible spirit of trade which had seized upon the nation's emblems, freshly consecrated in the blood of her sons, and was turning them to commercial account, advertising, in symbols of death and priceless devotion, that ribbons or soap or candy were for sale. The flag was, so to speak, dirt-cheap.
They were "dirt-cheap," Henrietta declared, as we watched the plaster casts pass over the heads of the crowd, out of which by and by emerged our shopmate, little Angela, clasping a Madonna under her arm and counting her change. The three of us resumed our homeward walk together, without any comment until Angela had satisfied herself about the correctness of her change.
But fifty guineas be a sight o' money to a chap as be out of a job, though 'e's dirt-cheap at the price. There ain't many 'osses like 'im, sir." "That was why I should have bought him at ten times the price," said Barnabas. The man took off his hat, ran his stubby fingers through his grizzled hair, and stared hard at Barnabas. "Sir," said he, "even at that you couldn't ha' done wrong.
He could put them into the way of getting a thoroughbred bull-dog dirt-cheap; he could put them up to all the tips at billiards and "Nap," and he could make up a book for them on the Derby or any other race, that was bound to win.
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