count the cost

Meaning

1. count the cost (of sth)

   to feel the bad effects of a mistake, an accident, etc.

   The town is now counting the cost of its failure to provide adequate flood protection.

In the movies · 2

• I never count the cost of beauty. You should know that.24 Hour Party People2002
• To give and not to count the cost. To toil and not to seek for rest.The End of the Tour2015

Learn it in full scenes

• 24 Hour Party People2002
  • Tony Wilson Names the Factory
  • Tony Wilson Names Joy Division
  • Tony Wilson Announces the US Tour
• The End of the Tour2015
  • Lipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
  • Dave Wallace Doesn't Drink
  • Wallace and Lipsky First Meeting

From the same entry

• be able to count on one hand
• …and counting
• count your blessings
• don't count your chickens
• count sheep
• stand up and be counted
• who's counting
• count against
• count down
• count in
• count on
• count out