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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