| 词汇 | daylight-robbery |
| 释义 | daylight robbery noun[ U ] UKinformaluk /ˌdeɪ.laɪt ˈrɒb.ər.i/ us /ˌdeɪ.laɪt ˈrɑː.bɚ.i/(UShighway robbery) a situation in which you have to pay far too much money for something: 漫天要价;敲竹杠 £6 for an orange juice? That's just daylight robbery!橙汁6英镑一杯？简直就是抢钱！ 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 dear exorbitant gouge outprice overcharge pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitive prohibitively sight daylight robbery | Business Englishdaylight robbery noun[ U ] UKukus(UShighway robbery) a situation in which someone is charged a price that is much too high: The banks should not be able to get away with this daylight robbery. Examples of daylight robberydaylight robbery Whichever way one looks at it, it is daylightrobbery, and it will go on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surprise, surprise: the predators who bought that chunk of privatised land committed daylightrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The opposition called the results scandalous daylightrobbery, claiming an outright victory in the first round with 50.3% of the votes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A case of daylightrobbery. It should not, however, lead to daylightrobbery. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Why should he conceivably undertake the risks associated with manslaughter when he can get away with daylightrobbery scotfree? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After nationalisation in 1977 the old owners were given a golden handshake in return for their daylightrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I made it quite clear that this is going beyond privatisation—it is sheer daylightrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What happens at present amounts to nothing less than daylightrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, capital gains tax that does not take account of inflation is confiscation for that inflation amount, and, therefore, daylightrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are absolutely unspeakable practices that are bordering on daylightrobbery, and these operators are responsible - they provide no transparency for consumers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Considering what those councils do with the money, those figures represent not cuts but daylightrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I welcome the changes to council tax benefits, as a response to the "daylightrobbery" campaign. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard cries of, "daylightrobbery", and "windfall profit" from time to time during the past few months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Otherwise, such a tax is confiscation and daylightrobbery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of daylight 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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