Complete this sentence: "He folded like a cheap..."

In My Humble Opinion
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Pocket knife.
They don’t stay firmly open or closed, so they can bite you by closing when you are using them or when they open a little in your pocket.

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I’ve heard “suit” most often (the idea being that you’d never fold an expensive suit, and also that a cheap suit is flimsy and more easily folded). But I’ve also heard “card table” and like that better. I have heard “folded like a house of cards”, but never in conjunction with “cheap”.

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A cheap card table. Because they fold when you don’t want them to… like when you’re, you know, trying to play cards on them.

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I’d never thought of that before!

25

Condom.

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Hooker.

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I’ve mostly heard “tent”, I think, and “suit” which makes less sense since one doesn’t typically fold suits for storage.

My favorite though is “[he] folded faster than Superman on laundry day”. Can’t remember where I first heard/read it but it’s my go-to analogy for folding :slight_smile:

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I’ve never heard the expression “folded like a cheap suit”, but I have heard the expressions “folded like a cheap card table” and “all over you like a cheap suit”. I wonder if the two got conflated?

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How do you fold a camera? :confused:

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Large format film cameras may still use bellows construction, for all I know. It used to be pretty common. Polaroid cameras were using it into the 1970’s, at least.

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Through the 1970s, cameras often folded accordion-style into a box.

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Good thought, there… I remember originally hearing “all over him like a cheap suit” to mean a micromanaging boss type, or (in a sports context) someone applying a suffocating man-on-man defense at basketball or football. “Folded like a cheap suit” doesn’t make much sense, because while it’s true that one would not hang an expensive suit, it’s still true that one would not hang a cheap suit either, because even cheap suits come with jacket hangers (I guess the pants may get folded by some folks).

As for a house of cards, they don’t fold, they fall (or collapse). As in, “If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!”

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Cheap house of cards? As opposed to an expensive house of cards that never folds?

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Ah, cheers guys :slight_smile: