cheap like borscht

• cheap as borscht

Calque of Yiddish ביליק ווי באָרשט (bilik vi borsht), as the beets used to make it were among the cheapest vegetables.

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cheap like borscht (not comparable)

1. (Canada, informal, simile) Very inexpensive.

• cheap as chips
• dirt cheap

• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “cheap like borscht”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.