Meaning of pound-shop | Babel Free

Definitions

Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior imitation.

British, attributive, derogatory, informal

Examples

“[…] no rational human being should ever trust a single utterance issued by a pound-shop Trumpian administration.”

“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”.”

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