pound-shop en · NOUN
Etymology
Attributive form of pound shop, due to the perception of the goods sold in pound shops as being cheap, low-quality versions of more expensive products found elsewhere.
Meanings
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(UK, attributive, derogatory, informal) Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior imitation.
Colum Eastwood, the MP for Foyle and leader of the SDLP, the nationalist party whose founding member, John Hume, won a Nobel prize for his championing of the peace process in Northern Ireland, called Braverman a “pound-shop Enoch Powell”.
2023 November 9, Daniel Boffey, quoting Colum Eastwood, “Braverman clarifies Northern Ireland comments amid angry criticism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:[…] no rational human being should ever trust a single utterance issued by a pound-shop Trumpian administration.
2021 December 8, Owen Jones, “In Britain’s pound-shop Trumpian administration, rules are for the rest of us”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms
Poundland · Wish.com · Tesco Value · BTEC · poor man's · dollar-store