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pile it high and sell it cheap

mainly UK saying

Definition

said when a shop sells large amounts of a product at cheap prices

(Definition of pile it high and sell it cheap from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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