| 单词 | highway robbery |
| 释义 | highway robberyhighway robbery American EnglishAmE informal a situation in which something costs you a lot more than it should 敲竹杠，抢劫 It’s highway robbery, charging that much for gas! 这简直就是抢钱，汽油竟然要这么贵！ Examples from the Corpus highway robbery• At the end highway robberies, riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.• This brother-in-law was eventually hanged for highway robbery.• A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.• She says it's highway robbery.• Sixty dollars for a textbook? That's highway robbery.• The constable left in charge of Burford was reluctant to take any action, even when Seb reported the highway robbery at Swinbrook. → highway robbery at highway(2) |
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