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词汇 cost-dear
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cost someone dear


idiom
UK
to cause someone to spend a lot of money or lose money: 让…花很多钱;使…损失一大笔钱
Buying that second-hand car without having it checked by a mechanic first cost us dear.没先请机修工检查就买了那辆二手汽车,这让我们亏了许多钱。
UK
to cause someone a lot of problems: 使…付出沉重代价;使…饱尝苦头
Later that year he attacked a photographer, an incident that cost him dear.那年底他攻击了一位摄影师,这件事让他付出了巨大代价。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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
costliness
daylight robbery
dear
dearness
exorbitant
gouge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitively
prohibitory
sight

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