- at a high price
- to buy cheap and sell dear
Word OriginOld English dēore, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dier ‘beloved’, also to Dutch duur and German teuer ‘expensive’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See dear in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarycost somebody dear
- to cost somebody a lot of money
- The campaign for the presidency has cost her dear.
- to make somebody suffer a lot
- That one mistake has cost him dear over the years.
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