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vb. (context idiomatic English) To pay a high price, especially an exorbitant or excessive amount, either in money or in some other manner.
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Usage examples of "pay through the nose".
If I won, I'd reveal myself and the Israelites would pay through the nose to hush up the fact that a woman beat their king and I could buy my own armor.
These included nine capital ships, three large military vessels, and several slick yachts clearly used to move purchasing agents to the wares they needed as quickly as possible, which meant that their employers were desperate and would pay through the nose.
Mineral-poor and overworked hexes would pay through the nose for a steady supply.
So the presence of even one housemate means that you can with some confidence undertake an activity, or a thought train, of as long as an hour's duration, without having to literally pay through the nose.
One famous television producer wants to pay through the nose for what girls do through the bladder which is otherwise known as the golden shower.
If we pay through the nose for Lusius to put his own guards on our ships, they get through.
Polastrindu that would pay through the nose for a pinch of it, so to speak.
For years he had gone begging to the creeps for jobs, and now they were going to crawl to him, and he was going to make them pay through the nose.
Somebody's about to pay for the work I've been doing, and boy, they're going to pay through the nose.