Dictionary

you buy cheap, you get cheap en · X

Meanings

1. Inexpensive goods and services tend to be inferior to more expensive ones.
   • No more of that stuff, please and thank you. American Grain, my rosy red ass. Someone should have told those babies you put the fertilizer on the hops before you grow em, not after. A headache on three lousy beers! Gosh! Well—you buy cheap, you get cheap. 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:

Relateds

if you pay bananas, you get monkeys · if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys · you get what you pay for

Synonyms

buy cheap, buy twice

Translations (1)

fi halvalla ei saa hyvää (inexpensive things tend to be inferior)