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cheap like borsch — not expensive, as cheap as vegetable soup I didn t pay much for this jacket. It was cheap like borsch. borsch may also be spelled borsh, borscht or borshch, showing that we lack an authoritative mapping from the Russian to the English alphabet … English idioms
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