Meanings
verbcost the earth (third-person singular simple present costs the earth, present participle costing the earth, simple past and past participle cost the earth)
present singular third person costs the earth · participle present costing the earth
- idiomaticTo be a huge expense.
"That's a nice suit, Noelene. Is it new?" Of course it's bloody new. Cost me the earth.
2009, Patricia Shaw, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 107Synonyms: cost a fortune, cost a king's ransom, cost an arm and a leg, cost a pretty penny
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo be a huge expense.
Similar
cost a fortunecost a king's ransomcost an arm and a legcost a pretty penny
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 花一大筆錢 /花一大笔钱
- 花一大筆錢 /花一大笔钱 (huā yīdàbǐqián)be a huge expense
Finnish maksaa maltaita, maksaa mansikoita
- maksaa maltaitabe a huge expense
- maksaa mansikoitabe a huge expense
French coûter bonbon, coûter la peau du dos
- coûter bonbonbe a huge expense
- coûter la peau du dosbe a huge expense
- coûter une blindebe a huge expense
- coûter la peau du culbe a huge expense
- coûter un brasbe a huge expense
- coûter une couillebe a huge expense
Hungarian egy vagyonba kerül
- egy vagyonba kerülbe a huge expense
Italian costare un occhio della testa
- costare un occhio della testabe a huge expense
Russian влете́ть в копе́ечку, уда́рить по карма́ну
- влете́ть в копе́ечку (vletétʹ v kopéječku)be a huge expense
- уда́рить по карма́ну (udáritʹ po karmánu)be a huge expense
Swedish kosta skjortan
- kosta skjortanbe a huge expense
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Chicago
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