bargain basement

"Where will I find an aluminum cooking pot?" growled the elder Beagle unexpectedly.

"In the Bargain Basement," said Gissing promptly.

The Soviet Union is offering to send commercial satellites into orbit at bargain-basement prices.

"This nation can't afford bargain-basement cops any more," says Oregon's Multnomah County (Portland) Sheriff Donald Clark. . . . Almost everyone agrees that U.S. police sorely need more education.