Смысл: robberyrobbery[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 Í>
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.
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