daylight robbery

British  

noun

1. informal blatant overcharging

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daylight robbery Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Everyone agrees the Louvre is in poor shape, however, with a recent water leak, structural problems and an embarrassing daylight robbery in October focusing minds.

From Barron's

Management said the Louvre, which was the victim of an embarrassing daylight robbery on October 19, would open "as normal" on Friday.

From Barron's

The embassy called Washington's behaviour "daylight robbery" and "gangster," demanding it provide a formal apology and compensation and arrest and extradite the raiders.

From Reuters

When thieves pulled out a sharp blade to slice Willem de Kooning’s painting “Woman-Ochre” from its frame at Tucson’s University of Arizona Museum of Art in a daring, daylight robbery on the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, they likely expected the canvas to fall out into their waiting arms like a silk scarf slipping off bare shoulders.

From Los Angeles Times

It later became his job, as in 1992 he set up Daylight Robbery, an organisation specialising in live visual projections, moving image and curated sets designed for themed club nights.

From BBC