to pay too much money for sth; to make someone suffer a heavy non-monetary cost, in blood, lives, or punishment
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to pay too much money for sth
Using my son to get information, and then making me pay through the nose.
We're sunk, and we'll have to pay through the nose, and you know it.
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to make someone suffer a heavy non-monetary cost, in blood, lives, or punishment
Make them pay through the nose!
Definiciones del Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9.ª edición