come cheap
idiom
: to be available at a low price
—usually used in negative statements
These materials don't come cheap.
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Doing well this season didn’t come cheap, and at this point, the best-performing rosters found a way to get at least two of the above movies onto their rosters.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
As the name implies, golden visas don't come cheap.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
School bus seat belts don't come cheap The cost of adding lap and shoulder belts to a school bus is not cheap.
—Nick Caloway, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
The medicine doesn’t come cheap.
—Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 8 Feb. 2026
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
As the name implies, golden visas don't come cheap.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
School bus seat belts don't come cheap The cost of adding lap and shoulder belts to a school bus is not cheap.
—Nick Caloway, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
The medicine doesn’t come cheap.
—Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Come cheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20cheap. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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