WordNet
n. the cost of personal or family living; "some personal expenses are tax deductible"
Usage examples of "personal expense".
If I'd wanted to turn you over to the Servitors I could have done so earlier, more safely, and at considerably less personal expense.
Sometimes I get a stray, a young female disciple who comes all alone from Sweden at great personal expense and hardship.
I offer humble sanctuary through artful sorcery invested into this chair at great personal expense.
Maslama had up to this point concealed from his employees his extracurricular work as the chief herald of the returned Celestial and Semi-Godlike Being, sticking posters in his shopwindows only when he was sure he was unobserved, neglecting to sign the display advertisements he bought in newspapers and magazines at considerable personal expense, proclaiming the imminent Glory of the Coming of the Lord.
I have been forced to take the two apartments adjoining this and keep them unoccupied, at great personal expense.
I've just come from - up yonder, at considerable personal expense, and I'd like to see someone in authority.