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daylight robbery

noun

  1. informal.
    blatant overcharging


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Idioms and Phrases

Charging exorbitant prices, as in The amount you're asking for this couch is daylight robbery . [Mid-1900s] Also see highway robbery .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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