you buy cheap, you get cheap in English

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          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger",
          "text": "No more of that stuff, please and thank you. American Grain, my rosy red ass. Someone should have told those babies you put the fertilizer on the hops before you grow em, not after. A headache on three lousy beers! Gosh! Well—you buy cheap, you get cheap.",
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          "word": "if you pay bananas, you get monkeys"
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          "word": "halvalla ei saa hyvää"
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  "word": "you buy cheap, you get cheap"
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"you buy cheap, you get cheap" meaning in English

Proverb