Cinderella sale

noun

An occasional sale of miscellaneous or damaged items.

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Meanings

nounCinderella sale (plural Cinderella sales)

plural Cinderella sales

  1. businessAn occasional sale of miscellaneous or damaged items.

    Instead of advertising small widths and sizes in women's shoes, the event was called the Cinderella sale.

    1915, Chilton Company (publisher), Boot and Shoe Recorder, Volume 67, page 47
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    Why not try a Cinderella Sale? Offer a table of odds and ends, broken sizes, leftovers, etc. Make prices ridiculous.

    1975, Farm Supplier, volume 49, page 399

Origin

First use appears c. 1909 in the publication Shoe Retailer and Boots and Shoes Weekly.

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