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an arm and a leg |
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an arm and a leg a lot of money Everything the restaurant offers tastes good, and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Usage notes: usually used with the verbs cost, pay, and charge How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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LIKE me, you may have been pleasantly surprised during recent trips
that gasoline now only costs an arm instead of an arm and a leg. Building security doesn't need to cost an arm and a leg all at
once. Aussie Daniel Jones, hero to many and to one special tree in
particular, broke an arm and a leg when he fell out of a tree he had
inhabited in a nonviolent protest against the destruction of trees for a
Woolworth's in Maleny, Australia. |
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