friend price

English

friend price (plural friend prices)

(colloquial) A discounted price; a discount.
- 2009, John Burnett, Where Soldiers Fear To Tread: At Work in the Fields of Anarchy, Random House, →ISBN, page 33:
  AFTER flying into Nairobi the next day, I dickered with the driver of a clapped-out rogue taxi, a cheerful youth with dreadlocks under a red, black, and gold woven Rasta cap, for the fare to the UN headquarters that I was told Kenyans would pay. "Okay, okay, bwana, I give you friend price, Rafiki price."
- 2011, Florian Schaetz, editor, Fès Reborn: Project on an Ancient City, Singapore: Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture, National University of Singapore, →ISBN, page 81:
  Come friend, come!!! I give you friend price! I give you discount price! I give you global price!!! The medina talks to you everywhere you go, Every corner you turn.
- 2021, C.S. Frances, Madness in Morocco‎^[1], C.S. Frances Claire McHugh Limited, page 92:
  "This one here, the green it matches your eyes...or this one is very nice....or this one, you like this one? yes or no?" the middle aged Moroccan man asked her, pushing Vivian to make a choice.
  "Um...I think so?" Vivian didn't want to offend the man.
  "How much? 100 dirham? I give you friend price. You tell me, good price right? Good price, best price my friend. They look beautiful on you, 100 dirham." he pushed.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see friend,‎ price (a discount given to one's (actual) friend).

Said when imitating the supposed non-native English speech of street merchants, street vendors, hawkers and scammers in foreign countries who market to tourists, especially in Asia and Africa.