"for a song" meaning in 英语

See for a song in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-for a song.ogg
  1. 以非常便宜的价格 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-for_a_song-en-prep_phrase-CAGjToOv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: for a song and a dance
Categories (other): 英語介詞短語, 英語詞元

Alternative forms

Download JSONL data for for a song meaning in 英语 (1.6kB)

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          "ref": "2009 December 11, “Jet Cemetery: Where Airplanes Go to Die”, 出自 Businessweek:",
          "text": "[T]he contents of aircraft that once commanded prices up to $148m are now being sold off for a song after being torn apart in Gloucestershire's aviation charnel house."
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          "ref": "2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press,, →ISBN,頁號 200:",
          "text": "In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day."
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          "ref": "2013 August 16, Robin Finn, “A Former Madoff Penthouse Goes Back on the Market”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues."
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