English Teacher Melanie: Expressions – How to Say Something is Expensive!
(Photo by liuwencheng)In the listening lesson “Sex and the City 2!” I talked about buying snacks at the movie theatre.I think that paying $6.26 for a SMALL bag of popcorn is highway robbery!(highway robbery = when someone charges you a price that is ridiculously high!)Here are some other ways to say that something is expensive:
- Parking a car downtown Toronto costs an arm and a leg!
- Wow! That house looks expensive. It must have cost a small fortune.
- Oooh, is that a new Prada bag? That must have cost you a pretty penny!
- I really like the new restaurant that opened up down the street. It’s a bit pricey but the food is worth it!
- We found the perfect location for our wedding reception, but we had to pay through the nose for it!
- I would love to go to Switzerland on vacation, but a trip right now would definitely break the bank!
- Going to the movies is expensive, but it won’t break the bank!
(to break the bank = to cost all the money you have in the bank; more commonly used in the negative form to not break the bank when you want to say that something is expensive, but not that expensive.)
- The New York Yankees pay top dollar for the best baseball players.
(to pay top dollar = to pay a lot of money for something.) Do you have any interesting expressions in your language to say that something is expensive?
