| 词汇 | over-the-odds |
| 释义 | over the oddsidiomUKinformal more than something is really worth: （价钱）超出所值的 It's a nice enough car but I'm sure she paid over the odds for it.这汽车确实很漂亮，但我敢肯定她买贵了。 Costing too much bottomless pit capital intensive 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 outprice overcharge pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitively sight sky-high Examples of over the oddsover the odds Authorities will be penalised financially if they spend overtheodds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, would it apply only if they were going to pay overtheodds, as it were? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The report concluded that consumers were not paying overtheodds for their petrol in that part of the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much of the wage pressure that is building up is because employers have to pay overtheodds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was overtheodds because another £110,000 should have been paid later. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There have been many cases of election petitions when people have spent 2½p overtheodds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they choose to pay overtheodds, that will come out of shareholders' funds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had employers from other factories ringing up to ask whether we were paying overtheodds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will have to pay overtheodds whilst those responsible have the further surcharge and disqualification removed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I assure him that there are many times when the ports pay overtheodds for the fish just to keep their employees at work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of the schools in this scheme can pay overtheodds to attract teachers who, in effect, work longer hours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what is causing the wage drift, and the "paying overtheodds" to obtain labour that is so sorely needed by hard-pressed firms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that authorities that receive the area cost adjustment have to pay overtheodds for their teachers or other staff. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does that not show that the taxpayer is being asked to pay overtheodds for a discriminatory, two-tier service? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that not a bit overtheodds? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of over the odds 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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