into the bargain

English

Alternative forms

• in the bargain (US)

Prepositional phrase

into the bargain

1. (informal) along with it; additionally; as well

   Synonyms: to boot, on top of that

   • 1837, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 3, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC:

     That same evening, the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain.

   • 1870, Blackwood's Magazine:

     He was roofless, dinnerless, breakfastless, supperless, penniless, friendless, all at once; and brandyless into the bargain.

   • 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 88:

     'Yet here I find you trying it again and looking like a beggar's child into the bargain.'

Translations

along with

• Finnish: kaupan päälle
• French: par-dessus le marché (fr), pour couronner le tout (fr)
• Irish: le cois
• Polish: na dokładkę (pl), na dobitkę (pl)
• Russian: заодно (ru) (zaodno), вдобавок (ru) (vdobavok), в придачу (ru) (v pridaču), сверх того (sverx tovo), до кучи (ru) (do kuči), кроме того (ru) (krome tovo)
• Walloon: al copete do martchî (wa)

See also

• to top it all off

Further reading

• “into the bargain”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “into the bargain”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “into the bargain” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “into the bargain” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.