What on Earth does "cheap at half the price" mean?
(in Phrasefinder Bulletin Board): 'Cheap at half the price' is understood to mean 'reasonably priced' and if people understand that meaning why worry about logical niceties? It was never …
A word for price after tax and service charge but before discount
10 Taken from here: The net price is the price pre-tax, and the gross price should be the price including tax. backed up by here: you know a price after tax (the Gross price) but want to find …
word choice - "Exact a price" versus "extract a price" - English ...
A ruthless bargainer may indeed "extract a price" from a hesitant but desperate seller under duress—but in the less extortionate sense of simply imposing a price, "exact a price" seems …
meaning - "Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue"
Yeah, that's about it. It means that virtue may be discussed and openly advocated, but vice must not be; that is to say, virtue is unmarked and vice is marked. This is the basis of all journalism, …
"cheaper price" or "lower price" / "cheaper rate" or "lower rate"
Somehow it really grates me when people say that something is at a "cheaper/more expensive price" or "cheaper/more expensive rate". My understanding is that prices and rates can be …
"In the market" or "on the market" - English Language & Usage …
Generally speaking, only the commodity itself is on the market, while the traders themselves and other aspects of the trade are in the market. So one puts one’s pork bellies on the market at …
What is the difference between 20$ and $20? [closed]
I am seeing both 20$ and $20 usages. (20 is nonessential to this question.) What is the difference between them?
grammar - "It worths it", "it worth it" or "it is worth it"? - English ...
Worth as a verb is obsolete. Where have you seen or heard It worths it or It worth it? What you will find is It’s worth it, used to describe something that has a value equivalent to what is being …
meaning - Differences between "price point" and "price" - English ...
Feb 9, 2011 · Price point means a point on a scale of possible prices at which something might be marketed; its meaning is different from the meaning of price, which is (principally, but not only) …
Origin of "ballpark estimate" to mean a very rough estimate?
maybe its because baseball stadiums all vary in size and therefore a "ballpark estimate" would mean the size of a ballpark -- something already very roughly defined