arm and a leg

胳膊和腿手脚并用胳膊腿儿胳膊腿

arm and a leg 的定义

  1. An exorbitant amount of money, as in These resort hotels charge an arm and a leg for a decent meal, or Fixing the car is going to cost an arm and a leg. According to Eric Partridge, this hyperbolic idiom, which is always used in conjunction with verbs such as “cost,” “charge,” or “pay,” and became widely known from the 1930s on, probably came from the 19th-century American criminal slang phrase, if it takes a leg, to express desperate determination.

arm and a leg 近义词

arm and a leg

等同于 cost

更多arm and a leg例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  4. At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.
  5. The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.
  6. She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
  7. In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.
  8. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
  9. Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
  10. She looked up in his face, leaning on his arm beneath the encircling shadow of the umbrella which he had lifted.