cost dear

釋義

1. cost sb dear

   使飽嘗苦頭；使付出沉重的代價

   to make sb suffer a lot

   That one mistake has cost him dear over the years.那一個差錯使他多年來付出了沉重的代價。

電影裡這樣說 · 2 部

• 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

同一詞條的短語

• 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