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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

daylight robbery  (British, American & Australian) also highway robbery (American & Australian)
a situation in which you are charged much more for something than you think you should have to pay Three pounds for an orange juice? It's daylight robbery!
See also: daylight, robbery


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Neither he nor Lieberman have the brazen, shameless, cast-iron guts to persist in this daylight robbery.
VAN NUYS - Two employees of a Van Nuys beauty shop were robbed, and the owner was sexually assaulted, during a daylight robbery, a Detective Headquarters Division spokesman said Sunday.
Passers-by came to Anderson's aid after the daylight robbery in the 8400 block of Canoga Avenue.
 
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