what price

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What must be lost or sacrificed to gain ___?

“What price freedom, after so many years of war?”

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Meanings

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  1. idiomaticWhat must be lost or sacrificed to gain ___?

    What price freedom, after so many years of war?

  2. idiomaticWhat are the chances of ___ succeeding?

    His eyes went to the group of weapons again and the sight gave him a new idea. "Aha, what price this?" he cried, and pulling a short sword out of its sheath he drove it in between mask and wall and levered the shell away, nails and all.

    1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
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