בִּגְרוּשׁbegrush meaning in Hebrew
for next to nothing, dirt cheap · adverbial expression (preposition + noun)
Also spelled in English: be-grush, bigrush
Someone points at a gorgeous mid-century desk in their apartment and waits for you to guess the price. When you guess high, they smirk: קניתי בגרוש.
קניתי את הספה ביד שנייה בגרוש, ועכשיו כולם שואלים איפה מצאתי אותה.
“I got the sofa secondhand for peanuts, and now everyone asks where I found it.”
Picture the best secondhand find in your house and say out loud what you paid for it using בגרוש.
Israeli slang wordsHebrew expressions and idiomsHebrew words for money and deals