an arm and a leg
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He already suspects that “the fancy new computer system that they’ve spent an arm and a leg on” is at fault, and has refused to endorse its figures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
Most famously, former navy diver Paul de Gelder was left without an arm and a leg after he was attacked by a bull shark during a counter-terrorism exercise in Sydney Harbour in 2009.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
But there may be other items on the list that do not cost an arm and a leg.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
This time, in a work well-timed to the world’s inflation crisis, they want to show that it doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg, either.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
Except for my sister Audrey, who broke both an arm and a leg when she was young.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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