hold cheap | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Tohavealowesteemfor (someone or something); tohold in contempt; tolook down upon.1927,Countee Cullen, “From the Dark Tower”, inCopper Sun, New York, N.Y.; London:Harper & Brothers,→OCLC, part 1 (Color); republished inJames Weldon Johnson, editor,The Book of American Negro Poetry[…], revised edition, New York, N.Y.:Harcourt, Brace and Company,1931,→OCLC,page228:We shall not always plant while others reap / The golden increment of bursting fruit, / Not always countenance, abject and mute / That lesser men shouldholdtheir brotherscheap;[…]

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