arm and a leg

Example Sentences

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“It should not cost an arm and a leg to take the family to a baseball game or attend your favorite musician’s show.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

But there may be other items on the list that do not cost an arm and a leg.

From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2023

This time, in a work well-timed to the world’s inflation crisis, they want to show that it doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg, either.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2022

"And if it's not going to cost me an arm and a leg, why not?"

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2022

So she took a taxi, which cost her an arm and a leg.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner