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cost dear

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cost somebody dear
if something that someone does, especially something stupid, costs them dear, it causes them a lot of problems Later that year he attacked a photographer, an incident that cost him dear.
See count the cost, and hang the cost
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Not an inch will be asked for or conceded and even the slightest of mistake can cost dear.
Mohandoss) THREE missed catches and middle-order batting collapse cost dear for the BankMuscat-sponsored Team Oman in the final warm-up against Afghanistan by four wickets at the green-carpeted Benoni Willowmore Park yesterday.
After years of profligacy and Bush's ballooning deficits, there is too little money around for a raft of government projects that would cost dear.
 
 
 
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