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n. (context idiomatic English) A very high price for an item or service; an exorbitant price; (non-gloss definition: usually used after the verb ''cost''.)
Usage examples of "arm and a leg".
Can't get a decent fillet without paying an arm and a leg for itthere's more maimed beggars than ever crowding ths streets where the markets used to be.
Owen said his father resented selling some of his best pieces of granite to other granite companies that made gravestones, and charged an arm and a leg for them-according to Mr.
She saw thick, nut-brown limbs - an arm and a leg, still attached to an otherwise dismembered torso.
It may cost an arm and a leg for a cafetiere and a sticky bun, but it is worth every penny and they will let you sit there all day, which I seriously considered doing now as it was so agreeable.
In one of the rooms, an old man sits stiff m a chair, with an arm and a leg in splints.
The dead slave was in such bad shape, nobody noticed the body was missing an arm and a leg when he was buried.