cost dear

Meaning

1. cost sb dear

   to make sb suffer a lot

   That one mistake has cost him dear over the years.

In the movies · 2

• Ten years ago He came and paid for Cosette I let her go for a song It's time we settled the debt This'll cost him dear!Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• Fourteen years of it. And it cost him dear too.Red River1948

From the same entry

• at all cost
• at any cost
• at cost
• know to your cost
• count the cost
• it will cost you
• cost an arm and a leg