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on sale

Idioms  

  1. At a reduced price, as in These rugs have been on sale for a month. The use of sale for disposing of goods at lowered prices dates from about 1860.

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The T-shirt is on sale for $21 and the crop top for $20.

From Los Angeles Times

Tickets for our first event will be on sale starting Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times

But strong word-of-mouth and the console's low price helped it to sell more than one million copies in its first year on sale.

From BBC

They can buy 10 of an item on sale because they have both the liquid capital and the physical space—large pantries or even second freezers—to store it.

From The Wall Street Journal

The band will play the 02 Ritz in Manchester on Friday, and a queue of fans stretched down Whitworth Street to the Palace Theatre when the tickets went on sale at 12:00 GMT.

From BBC

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