pay through the nose

Long-standing property owners or their heirs often pay virtually nothing in property taxes, while new purchasers pay through the nose, even for houses on the same block.

Moreover, customers are always going to pay through the nose for tickets to high-profile, massively popular acts like Taylor Swift.

We have one daughter and pay through the nose for private childcare.

That's why they were likely willing to pay through the nose to make the Dominion lawsuit go away.

“I had no choice but to pay through the nose for cabbages,” said 56-year-old Sung Ok-Koung, a homemaker in Seoul, for whom making kimchi is an important family activity.