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，由于選擇太少，美國人不得不為上網(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)上忘了買什么，在這個拐角商店里可非常方便地買到，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.
然而吸引那些外企伙伴是很難的，每當(dāng)他們想要回來照料他們的內(nèi)衣制造廠的運(yùn)營情況時，他們要付出巨大的財(cái)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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