Smithfield bargain

English

Noun

Smithfield bargain (plural Smithfield bargains)

  1. (obsolete) A bargain in which the buyer of something is taken advantage of; a rip-off. [17th–19th c.]
  2. (obsolete) A marriage made for convenience, especially for financial reasons. [17th–19th c.]
    • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals, V.1:
      Why, is it not provoking, when I thought we were coming to the prettiest distress imaginable, to find myself made a mere Smithfield bargain of at last?
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