daylight robbery

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daylight robbery

Fig. the practice of blatantly or grossly overcharging. It's daylight robbery to charge that amount of money for a hotel room! The cost of renting a car at that place is daylight robbery.

See also: daylight, robbery

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Since I discovered the daylight robbery the same gentleman instead of returning everything that he had stolen has become shamelessly aggressive and all the time he wants to flex his muscle and challenges me for a duel as if he wants to inform me why did I discover his daylight robbery and why am I taking him to court? Point of principle by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain) Byline: By Jenny Waddington A 40-YEAR-OLD woman suffered facial injuries during a horrific daylight robbery in a Warwickshire layby. WOMAN DRIVER IN LAYBY HORROR ATTACK; Victim struck in face and robbed ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) The information is undoubtedly present, but the manner in which it is presented shrieks of concealment of what is, in my view, nothing less than daylight robbery. Letter: Voice of the North - The great train station robbery by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			daub with daughter Davy Jones's locker dawdle dawdle about dawdle along dawdle away dawdle over dawn dawn on day day after day day and night day by day day in and day out day in, day out day late and a dollar short day of reckoning day off day one day person day-to-day day-tripper daydream about daylight daylight robbery days days are numbered days on end days running de facto de rigeur de trop dead dead ahead dead and buried dead and gone dead as a dodo dead as a doornail dead broke dead cat on the line dead center dead certain dead drunk dead duck dead easy dead from the neck up dead giveaway dead in or an animal's tracks dead in the water dead letter			dayglow DAYHA dayhop Dayjob DAYL DAYLE Daylength Daylesford Football Netball Club Daylesford Secondary College Daylesford Spa Country Railway daylight daylight daylight daylight Daylight (sunlight) Daylight (sunlight) Daylight Cinema daylight controls Daylight Demon Eyes daylight factor daylight factor Daylight filter daylight glass daylight hours Daylight Imaging System daylight lamp daylight lamp daylight loader method daylight opening Daylight Overdraft Reporting and Pricing System daylight robbery daylight saturation level daylight saving daylight saving daylight saving meridian daylight saving noon Daylight saving time Daylight saving time Daylight saving time daylight savings daylight savings daylight savings Daylight savings time Daylight savings time Daylight time Daylight Video Sight Daylight Viewable LCD daylight vision Daylight Visual Observation daylight width Daylight-Fingerprint Druglike Score daylight-saving time daylight-saving time daylight-savings time Daylighted Daylighted Daylighted Daylighting Daylighting Daylighting daylights

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