Dog-cheap.

A perversion of the old English god-chepe (a good bargain). French, bon marché (good-cheap or bargain).

“The sack … . would have bought me lights as good-cheap at the dearest chandler’s in Europe.”—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., iii. 3.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Dodipoll
Dodman
Dodona
Dods (Meg)
Dodson and Fogg
Doe
Doeg
Doff
Dog
Dog and Duck
Dog-cheap
Dog-days
Dog-fall (in wrestling)
Dog-grass (triticum repens)
Dog-head (in machinery)
Dog-headed Tribes
Dog-Latin
Dog-leech (A)
Dog-rose
Dog-sick
Dog-sleep (A)