knock sb back (sth)
UK informal— phrasal verb with knock uk/nɒk/us/nɑːk/verb
to cost someone a large amount of money:
I bet that computer knocked you back several hundred.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Costing too much
- break
- capital intensive
- cheap
- cost
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- costly
- daylight robbery
- exorbitant
- highway robbery
- knock
- money pit
- not come cheap idiom
- odds
- over the odds idiom
- overcharge
- pretty
- set sb back (sth)
- steep
- stiff
- usury
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