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cost a pretty penny

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cost (someone) a pretty penny

to be very expensive. That diamond ring must have cost him a pretty penny.

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Tulliver, "for everything's as nice as can be all over the house, and that watered silk she had on cost a pretty penny. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context More results

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