Expressions: How to Say Something is Expensive!

I think that paying $6.26 for a SMALL bag of popcorn is highway robbery!
(highway robbery = when someone charges you a price that is ridiculously high!)

Here are some other ways to say that something is
expensive:

• Parking a car downtown Toronto costs an arm and a leg!

• Wow! That house looks expensive. It must have cost a small fortune.

• Oooh, is that a new Prada bag? That must have cost you a pretty penny!

• I really like the new restaurant that opened up down the street. It’s a bitpricey but the food is worth it!

• We found the perfect location for our wedding reception, but we had topay through the nose for it!

• I would love to go to Switzerland on vacation, but a trip right now would definitely break the bank!

• Going to the movies is expensive, but it won’t break the bank!

(to break the bank = to cost all the money you have in the bank; more commonly used in the negative form to not break the bank when you want to say that something is expensive, but not that expensive.)

• The New York Yankees pay top dollar for the best baseball players.

(to pay top dollar = to pay a lot of money for something.)

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Do you have any interesting expressions in your language to say that something isexpensive?