daylight robberynoun [ U ]
uk/ˌdeɪ.laɪt ˈrɒb.ər.i/us/ˌdeɪ.laɪt ˈrɑː.bɚ.i/UK informal US highway robberya situation in which you have to pay far too much money for something:
£6 for an orange juice? That's just daylight robbery!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Costing too much
- break
- capital intensive
- cheap
- cost
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- costly
- 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
- usury
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