pay through the nose

基本解釋

Worse, because they have so little choice, Americans pay through the nose for the privilege of going online.
更糟糕的是，由於選擇太少，美國人不得不爲(wèi)上網(wǎng)付出過高的價錢。
The corner shop is convenient if you forget to get something in town, although you pay through the nose for anything you buy there.
如果你在鎮(zhèn)上忘了買什麼，在這個柺角商店裡可非常方便地買到，不過價錢要貴很多。
Luring those overseas business partners is hard when they have to pay through the nose every time they want to come and check how their underwear factory is doing, for instance.
然而吸引那些外企夥伴是很難的，每儅他們想要廻來照料他們的內(nèi)衣制造廠的運(yùn)營情況時，他們要付出巨大的財力 - 這就是一個例子。

If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money,for an object or service.
If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money, for an object or service.
Sometimes, they even pay through the nose.

And he would have data that advertisers would pay through the nose for.
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