My mother and her sister are in a debate and I'd like to shut them up. This debate has continued for about two weeks, and no one knows which one's right. Mum reckons cheap as nails and my aunt cheap as chips.... What dya reckon?
2006-08-28 02:18:37 · 9 answers · asked by ? 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I think its probably a really aussie saying....
2006-08-28 02:23:12 · update #1
Struth.., Ruth, these long dangley earrings are as cheap as chips.
The bloke over by the barbie, in the blue singlet, says the bloody meat is as tough as nails..!
2006-08-28 03:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I lived in Leeds, West Yorkshire for a few years and I remember hearing cheap as chips quite often (to express when something is relatively inexpensive). I've never heard cheap as nails though.
Seeing that you shorten the word mother to mum and not mom, I'm assuming that you are British (or at least not from North America). So if that's true, maybe cheap as chips is a uniquely Northern England saying?
Hope that helps.
2006-08-28 09:55:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cheap as nails
2006-08-28 09:21:17 · answer #3 · answered by evil_tiger_lily 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never heard either, but I would associate nails more with "tough as nails".
2006-08-28 09:21:29 · answer #4 · answered by GratefulDad 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like chips
cheap as chips. :D
2006-08-28 09:39:16 · answer #5 · answered by geniusgearguy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cheap as nails
2006-08-28 09:34:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've heard cheap as dirt, but the others that you mentioned I have never heard of.
2006-08-28 09:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by gapeach 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
u mean fisssh chips?
2006-08-28 09:28:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my votez 4 cheal as nails mate!!!
2006-08-28 09:26:27 · answer #9 · answered by mortal_sinner 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋