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poor man's...
idiom
used to refer to something that is a worse or cheaper version of something else that is mentioned:
Rugby union was turned into a poor man's rugby league.
There are dozens of poor man's versions of the popular video game.
This delicious fish really is the poor man's lobster.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Worse and worst
aggravating
aggravation
at your worstidiom
be in a different leagueidiom
can't hold a candle toidiom
hold
league
match
not be a patch on somethingidiom
not be in the same leagueidiom
not half asidiom
not in the same leagueidiom
not the sameidiom
patch
stick
subpar
to top it allidiom
topper
villain
worse
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