for a song

1. 1.

   for a relatively small amount of money

   “we bought the house for a song”

   Synonymsfor a bargain priceat a low price

Questions about for a song

What does for a song mean?

for a song means "for a relatively small amount of money".

What is another word for for a song?

Close synonyms include for a bargain price, at a low price. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is for a song a common word?

for a song is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.