highway robbery
idiomPart ofhighway
highway robbery — idiom
1. a situation in which someone charges a price that is unreasonably high, far beyo
1.idiom
Definition
a situation in which someone charges a price that is unreasonably high, far beyond what is fair
Example
Tomás paid fifteen dollars for a bottle of water at the airport and called it highway robbery.
Charging two hundred dollars to fix a simple leak struck Nadia as pure highway robbery.