pay through the nose in English
pay a high price, pay too much
Use "pay through the nose" in a sentence
1. Don't pay through the nose when you buy the furniture.
2. You'll have to pay through the nose to get that.
3. You'll have to pay through the nose for those curios.
4. To get a ticket the opera, he had to pay through the nose.
5. They pay through the nose for health care and for decent education for their children.
6. But now rich people pay through the nose for one, sometimes more than five million dollars.
7. The Americans have been making them pay through the nose for the war supplies they've received.
8. But now rich people pay through the nose for one, sometimes more than US $ 5 million.
9. That doesn't mean you have to pay through the nose for the privilege of an overdraft, however.
10. The message is that the government will cut a deal with any threatened industry willing to pay through the nose.
11. But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?