buy (something) for a song Идиома

break into song

begin to sing suddenly, sing without warning One of our teachers used to break into song when he taught poetry.

for a song

for a little money, for a low price Look at this sweater. I got it for a song at a second-hand store.

song and dance

excuses He gave me a song and dance about being busy but I never really believed him.

swan song

final appearance He was a big hit during his swan song at the party last week.

sell sth for a song

Idiom(s): sell sth for a song

Theme: SALES

to sell something for very little money. (As in trading something of value for the singing of a song.)
• I had to sell my car for a song because I needed the money in a hurry.
• I have two geometry books and I would sell one of them for a song.

go into one's song and dance

Idiom(s): go into one's song and dance (about sth)

Theme: EXPLANATION

to start giving one's explanations and excuses about something. (One's can be replaced by the same old. Fixed order.)
• Please don't go into your song and dance about how you always tried to do what was right.
• John went into his song and dance about how he won the war all by himself.
• He always goes into the same old song and dance every time he makes a mistake.

buy sth for a song

Idiom(s): buy sth for a song

Theme: CHEAPNESS

to buy something cheaply.
• No one else wanted it, so I bought it for a song.
• I could buy this house for a song, because it's so ugly.

Make a song and dance

(UK) If someone makes a song and dance, they make an unecessary fuss about something unimportant.

Swansong

A person's swansong is their final achievement or public appearance.

buy for a song|buy|song

v. phr. To buy something very cheaply. Since the building on the corner was old and neglected, I was able to buy it for a song.

buy (something) for a song

To acquirement article for a actual low price, abnormally back it is abundant lower than the affair is worth. The appliance aggregation is accepting a defalcation auction at the moment, so I was able to buy this chest of drawers for a song.Learn more: buy, for, song

for a song, to go/to buy/to sell

Something awash or bought for a trifling sum, by association for far beneath than its worth. The announcement is believed to appear from the pennies accustomed to afoot songsters assuming alfresco inns and accessible houses (bars), as able-bodied as the actual baby bulk appropriate to buy area music. The announcement dates from the sixteenth century. Shakespeare acclimated it in All’s Able-bodied That Ends Able-bodied (“I apperceive a man . . . awash a apparent estate for a song” [3.2]). It was a cliché by the time Byron wrote, “The amount would be a trifle—an ‘old song’” (Don Juan, 1824).Learn more: buy, for, go, sell, to

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