Smithfield bargain

noun2

1. •
   (no longer used) A bargain in which the buyer of something is taken advantage of; a rip-off.
2. •
   (no longer used) A marriage made for convenience, especially for financial reasons.

   • VVhy, is it not provoking; vvhen I thought vve vvere coming to the prettiest distress imaginable, to find myself made a mere Smithfield bargain of at last— […] — 1775