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king's ransom
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*king's ransom
Fig. a great deal of money. (To pay an amount as large as one might have to pay to get back a king held for ransom. *Typically: cost ~; pay ~; spend~.) I would like to buy a nice watch, but I don't want to pay a king's ransom for it. It's a lovely house. I bet it cost a king's ransom.
See also: ransom
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If organizers prevent profit taking, they might not have a large pool of tickets and buyers might go other places and be swindled by counterfeit tickets or pay a king's ransom.
Vancouver organizers please IOC in last report by AFP / AFP American Edition
If organizers prevent profit taking, they might not have a large pool of tickets and buyers might go other places and be swindled by counterfeit tickets or pay a king's ransom.
Vancouver organizers please IOC in last report by AFP / AFP Global Edition
We have just got to say as a club, if anyone is interested in our best players, A: they are going to have to pay a king's ransom for them, and B: we make sure we reinvest all that money to make sure we can go out and find some more.
Gunnarsson 'on board next season' FOOTBALL: Sky Blues boss Coleman ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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