highway robbery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of robbing a traveler on a public road. countable,historical,uncountable
  2. Excessive or exorbitant prices. idiomatic,uncountable,usually
    — They think they can charge $400 for a shirt? That's highway robbery.

词形变化

highway robberies plural highway-robbery alternative

词源

Compare Old English weġrēaf (“highway robbery”, literally “road-theft”).
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