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.