英语词汇cheap as a sardinian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cheap as a sardinian
词源	cheap as a Sardinian. Many groups of people have been un- fairly characterized as cheap, but the Sardinians do not carry this stigma. The phrase cheap as a Sardinian refers not to penny-pinching Sardinians but to the fact that the Romans un- der Tiberius Gracchus auctioned off great numbers of Sardinian prisoners in Rome for whatever price they could get, no matter how cheap.
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