Смысл: robbery

robbery[ʹrɒb(ə)rı]
n
<Í> 1) грабёж, разбой
highway robbery - грабёж на большой дороге
armed robbery - вооружённый грабёж
robbery with violence - грабёж с насилием
2) ограбление
three robberies in one week - три случая ограбления за одну неделю
3) разг. грабёж, обирание (публики)
daylight robbery - грабёж средь бела дня
to ask such prices is sheer robbery - запрашивать такую цену - сущий грабёж

fair exchange is no robbery Идиома

highway robbery

an extremely high price for something The price that we had to pay for the theater tickets was highway robbery.

daylight robbery

Idiom(s): daylight robbery

Theme: COMMERCE

the practice of blatantly or grossly overcharging.
• It's daylight robbery to charge that amount of money for a hotel room!
• The cost of renting a car at that place is daylight robbery.

highway robbery|highway|robbery

n. phr. 1. A hold-up of or theft from a person committed on an open road or street usually by an armed man. Highway robbery was common in England in Shakespeare's day. 2. An extremely high price or charge; a profiteer's excessive charge. To someone from a small town, the prices of meals and theater tickets in New York often seem to he highway robbery.

robbery

robbery
see daylight robbery; highway robbery.

a fair barter is no robbery

proverb If items of according amount are exchanged, it is a fair barter or deal. Come on, a fair barter is no robbery. You're gonna accept to up your ancillary of the arrangement to accomplish this a fair trade.Learn more: exchange, fair, no, robbery

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