highway robbery
Example Sentences
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“This is highway robbery without a gun. It’s not just us that they’re taking from. It’s our families who struggle to make ends meet and send us money, they are the real victims.”
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2018
I really don’t want to go back to the diapers and midnight feedings, etc., not to mention highway robbery of daycare costs.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015
John H. Garvey, president of Catholic University in Washington, recounted the parable of the Good Samaritan who helped a victim of highway robbery, even though the Samaritan was a foreigner in the country.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2013
Shortstop - The offseason trade that sent Jed Lowrie from Boston to Houston looks like highway robbery by the rebuilding Astros.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2012
"What he has done, and what he proposes to do, in Massingale's affair, is little short of highway robbery, Miss Genevieve."
From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis
