| 词汇 | highway-robbery |
| 释义 | highway robbery noun[ U ] USinformaluk /ˌhaɪ.weɪ ˈrɒb.ər.i/ us /ˌhaɪ.weɪ ˈrɑː.bɚ.i/(UKdaylight robbery) a situation in which you have to pay far too much money for something: 漫天要价;敲竹杠 $20 for two drinks? That's highway robbery!两杯饮料要20美元？这不是拦路抢劫吗！ to be expensive cost a (small) fortuneThis trip cost a fortune. cost an arm and a legDrinks at that club cost an arm and a leg. be daylight robberyWhat they're charging to get in is daylight robbery. be highway robbery$50 for two drinks? That's highway robbery! be a rip-off£200 for a concert ticket is a total rip-off. be prohibitively expensiveThe cost of textbooks alone makes schooling prohibitively expensive for many. Costing too much bottomless pit capital intensive cheap cheap at half the priceidiom cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom cost someone a pretty pennyidiom cost someone dearidiom costliness daylight robbery dear exorbitant gouge pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitive prohibitively prohibitory sight highway robbery | Business Englishhighway robbery noun[ U ] USukus → daylight robbery Examples of highway robberyhighway robbery Highwayrobbery itself has no fixed legal punishment. Highwayrobbery accounted for only about 6 per cent of indictments but was more than eight times better represented among the unsolved-crime reports. Crimes of desertion, highwayrobbery, and mendicants (so-called "cas prvtaux") were under the supervision of the "prvt des marchaux", who exacted quick and impartial justice. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Examples of aggravated larceny included highwayrobbery, burglary, attacks by footpads and piracy. Under the law as it was, these persons received existing use value, which was nothing short of highwayrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the motoring public are deeply resentful of this dishonest example of what cannot better be described than highwayrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can it continue to subsidise those routes when this new piece of highwayrobbery goes through? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is highwayrobbery to charge full price for something worth a few pence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Tolls on top of that are highwayrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they constituted highwayrobbery at one time, presumably they do both times. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those rights are, for practical reasons, subject to certain restrictions, inherent in the scheme, and there is no question of any highwayrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is simply the principle of highwayrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The process is more like highwayrobbery than a reticent transaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To do otherwise would be municipal highwayrobbery and would meet with massive opposition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is proposed to return a mere three-eighths of the loot of a highwayrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of highway robbery These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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