INTO THE BARGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does into the bargain mean? 

• INTO THE BARGAIN (adverb)
  The adverb INTO THE BARGAIN has 1 sense:

1. in addition; over and above what is expected

  Familiarity information: INTO THE BARGAIN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTO THE BARGAIN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In addition; over and above what is expected

Synonyms:

in the bargain; into the bargain

Context example:

He lost his wife in the bargain

 Context examples 

Well, I wish him out of all his trouble with all my heart, and a good wife into the bargain.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I was about desperate to lose that much blunt, and be hanged into the bargain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Grey as he was—and a great-grandfather into the bargain, for he said so—I was madly jealous of him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We must not be nice and ask for all the virtues into the bargain.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I ought to have something into the bargain, said the countryman; give a fat goose for a pig, indeed! ‘Tis not everyone would do so much for you as that.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And since you draw so large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in every way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan,—a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered: and blind and lame into the bargain.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Doctor Livesey patched it up with plaster and pulled my ears for me into the bargain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

One can walk along at one’s leisure behind that cow—keep good company, and have milk, butter, and cheese, every day, into the bargain.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You'll please bear in mind it's not my life only now—it's that boy's into the bargain; and you'll speak me fair, doctor, and give me a bit o' hope to go on, for the sake of mercy.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)