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单词 highway robbery
释义
highway robbery
noun[U]
USinformal
uk
/ˌhaɪ.weɪ ˈrɒb.ər.i/us
/ˌhaɪ.weɪ ˈrɑː.bɚ.i/
(UKdaylight robbery)
asituationin which you have topayfartoo muchmoneyfor something:
（形容花太多钱才能买到）拦路抢劫
$20 for twodrinks? That'shighwayrobbery!两杯饮料要20美元？这不是拦路抢劫吗！
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to be expensive
  • cost a (small) fortuneThis trip cost a fortune.
  • cost an arm and a legDrinks at that club cost an arm and a leg.
  • be daylight robberyWhat they're charging to get in is daylight robbery.
  • be highway robbery$50 for two drinks? That's highway robbery!
  • be a rip-off£200 for a concert ticket is a total rip-off.
  • be prohibitively expensiveThe cost of textbooks alone makes schooling prohibitively expensive for many.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing too much
  • a bottomless pitidiom
  • bottomless
  • capital intensive
  • cheap
  • cheap at half the priceidiom
  • cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
  • costsomeonea pretty pennyidiom
  • costsomeonedearidiom
  • daylight robbery
  • dear
  • exorbitant
  • gouge
  • outprice
  • pretty
  • price fixing
  • pricesomeoneout
  • priceyourselfout of the marketidiom
  • prohibitive
  • prohibitively
  • sight
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(Definition ofhighway robberyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

highway robbery| Business English

highway robbery
noun[U]
US
uk
us
→daylight robbery
(Definition ofhighway robberyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhighway robbery

highway robbery
Highwayrobberyitself has no fixed legal punishment.
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Highwayrobberyaccounted for only about 6 per cent of indictments but was more than eight times better represented among the unsolved-crime reports.
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Crimes of desertion,highwayrobbery, and mendicants (so-called "cas prvtaux") were under the supervision of the "prvt des marchaux", who exacted quick and impartial justice.
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Examples of aggravated larceny includedhighwayrobbery, burglary, attacks by footpads and piracy.
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Under the law as it was, these persons received existing use value, which was nothing short ofhighwayrobbery.
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All the motoring public are deeply resentful of this dishonest example of what cannot better be described thanhighwayrobbery.
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How can it continue to subsidise those routes when this new piece ofhighwayrobberygoes through?
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It ishighwayrobberyto charge full price for something worth a few pence.
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Tolls on top of that arehighwayrobbery.
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If they constitutedhighwayrobberyat one time, presumably they do both times.
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Those rights are, for practical reasons, subject to certain restrictions, inherent in the scheme, and there is no question of anyhighwayrobbery.
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It is simply the principle ofhighwayrobbery.
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The process is more likehighwayrobberythan a reticent transaction.
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To do otherwise would be municipalhighwayrobberyand would meet with massive opposition.
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It is proposed to return a mere three-eighths of the loot of ahighwayrobbery.
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