adj. phr. (old).—‘Dirt’ cheap. [From an ordinary of low repute in Holborn, notorious for the coarseness of its entertainment.—See Jonson’s The Alchemist, v., 2, and The Devil is an Ass, i., 1.]
1631. L. ANDREWES, Ninety-six Sermons (posthumous), p. 546. We set our wares at a very easy price, he (the devil) may buy us even DAGGER-CHEAP, as we say.
