FOR A SONG
for a song: translation
*for a song
Fig. cheaply. (As if the singing of a song were payment. *Typically:
buy something \for a song
; get something \for a song
; pick up someone \for a song.) •
No one else wanted it, so I picked it up for a song.
•
I could buy this house for a song, because it's so ugly.
* * *
{adv. phr.}, {informal} At a low price; for a bargain price; cheaply. * /He sold the invention for a song and its buyers were the ones who got rich./ * /They bought the house for a song and sold it a few years later at a good profit./