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no-frills (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.
He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals.
2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:Other stops retain no-frills brick-built shelters, although local community rail groups do their best to improve the ambience with planting, posters and artwork.
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