poor man's
adj1
Cheaper than, simpler than, a low-quality version of, or inferior to.
- Saxon is author of the popular terrorist manual The Poor Man's James Bond, a handbook containing recipes for bombs, napalm and tear gas.1996, False Patriots: The Threat of Antigovernment Extremists:
- People do not want 'second best' self-help schemes, which are regarded as a poor man's version of the market.1999, Charles Leadbeater, Ian Christie, To Our Mutual Advantage:
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- Much as the creators of Usenet called it “the poor man's ARPANET,” bulletin boards were a poor man's FTP.2001, Graham Nelson, The Inform Designer's Manual:
- Bowling is something everybody can do. It's a poor man's golf.2013, Jude Morgan, National Past Time: Kingpin Alley, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 6:
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