Reach-me-down

"Reach-me-down" in a Sentence (2 examples)

A reach-me-down dress, a penny sparkler, a fancy cake, a sixpenny entertainment . . . how can such things use up so much money?

He shrank from the prospect of being confronted next day, at the height of his misery, with these appalling reach-me-downs.

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