"for a song" meaning in All languages combined

See for a song on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [英语]

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 Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語俗語, 英語引文翻譯請求
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: for a song and a dance

Alternative forms

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有1個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有詞條的頁面",
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    },
    {
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          "ref": "2009年December11日, “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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press,, →ISBN,第 200 頁:",
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013年August16日, 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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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press,, →ISBN,第 200 頁:",
          "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年August16日, Robin Finn, “A Former Madoff Penthouse Goes Back on the Market”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:",
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Download raw JSONL data for for a song meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)

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