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Vsuresh Posted 12 years ago
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fooled cheaply

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Please tell me if this sounds apt here.

She told us that she was narrating a real life account. At the end she revealed that she had made it up only half an hour before. We felt we had been fooled cheaply.
  

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In the US the phase "fooled cheaply," although logical and understandable, is not used. In the same sense, this might be said instead as one of the following: We felt this was a cheap trick. We felt we had been fooled on the cheap.

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  • In the US the phase "fooled cheaply," although logical and understandable, is not used.
  • In the same sense, this might be said instead as one of the following: We felt this was a cheap trick.
  • We felt we had been fooled on the cheap.
  • We felt we had been fooled, and on the cheap.
  • We felt we had been fooled, and on the cheap, too.
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In the US the phase "fooled cheaply," although logical and understandable, is not used. In the same sense, this might be said instead as one of the following:

We felt this was a cheap trick.

We felt we had been fooled on the cheap.

We felt we had been fooled, and on the cheap.

We felt we had been fooled, and on the cheap, too.

We felt we had been foole
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