The Merriam Webster dictionary defines cheap as charging or obtainable at a low price a: a good cheap hotel cheap tickets b : purchasable below the going price or the real value so, strictly speaking, prices cannot be cheap since there is usually no price for a price; goods and services can be cheap or expensive but prices, as you say, can only be low or high. The only circumstance, strictly ...
1904 Topeka Capital 10 June 4 City Center kept the price of ice cream sodas at five cents until the State Sunday School convention struck town, and then the scale was hiked to ten cents. We talk about a hike in stock-market value, a hike in interest rates/rents/wages etc. It is also used as a transitive verb. But why is it hike?
Why do we use the term "hike" to describe an increase in price, value etc?
One of the great myths, originally spread and then debunked by Vedder, is that the band's name came from his great-grandmother, Pearl, who had a recipe for great peyote-laced jam. The truth is that ...
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