2009 12月 11, “Jet Cemetery: Where Airplanes Go to Die”, 出自 Businessweek[1]:
[T]he contents of aircraft that once commanded prices up to $148m are now being sold off for a song after being torn apart in Gloucestershire's aviation charnel house.
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2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press,, →ISBN，頁號 200:
In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
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2013 8月 16, Robin Finn, “A Former Madoff Penthouse Goes Back on the Market”, 出自 The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues.
