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单词 cost sb dear
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cost sb dear

UK to cause someone to spend a lot of money or lose money:

Buying that second-hand car without having it checked by a mechanic first cost us dear.

UK to cause someone a lot of problems:

Later that year he attacked a photographer, an incident that cost him dear.

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
  • knock sb back (sth)
  • money pit
  • not come cheap idiom
  • odds
  • over the odds idiom
  • overcharge
  • pretty
  • set sb back (sth)
  • steep
  • stiff

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