Shopping Flashcards
The supermarket chain announced that it was cutting the cost of all its fresh and frozen meat.
Chain: a set of connected or related things
Independent retailer
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He tried to flog his old car, but no one would buy it.
Flog : uk /informal to sell, especially quickly or cheaply.
It’s traditional that you haggle over/about the price of things in the market.
Haggle: to attempt to decide on a price or conditions that are acceptable to the person selling the goods and the person buying them, usually by arguing
Inexpensive
Low-priced
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Posh shopping malls
Posh: expensive and of high quality
Most chain stores only stock the real McCoy goods.
The real McCoy: genuine, not fake
If I see some classy products going for a song- I might be tempted.
Because the shop’s closing down, most of the stock is going for a song (= being sold very cheaply).
She bought the bed for a song at an auction.
Going for a song/ for a song: offered at a low price.
Some market stalls rip you off- they always flog fake stuff.
$300 for that shirt? - That’s a complete rip-off.
Rip sb. off: something that is not worth what you pay for it, cheat sb
