"Fold like a cheap camera"

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I was watching a NY1 interview with Curtis Sliwa (radio talk show host  &
Guardian Angel founder, now famous for the Gotti trial) talk twice about
"folding like a cheap camera."
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Shouldn't that be "folding like a cheap suit"? Who else uses "cheap  camera"?
Maybe he got it from someone else in radio, such as Bob Grant?
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_NEWSWEEK: Radio Talk Show Host Curtis Sliwa Says He Can't Wait to  ..._
(http://www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3691772)
They're Learning that Not Every Guy They Deal with Will  Fold Like a Cheap
Camera." (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050807/NYSU003 ) ...
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_Under Pressure, Whitman Vows Not to Appear With Bob Grant; THE 1994
CAMPAIGN: The Medium Becomes the Issue ON THE AIR Bowing to Pressure,  Whitman Vows
Never Again to Appear on Bob Grant Talk Show  _
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=116720028&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VNa
me=HNP&TS=1142914193&clientId=65882)
By JERRY GRAYSpecial to The  New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current
file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 22, 1994. p. 25 (2 pages)
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Pg. 29:
The program director for Mr. Grant's program, John  Mainelli, was much more
acerbic.
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"She's a two-bit politician who folded up like a  cheap camera," Mr. Mainelli
said in a telephone  interview.

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