cost dear

释义

1. cost sb dear

   使饱尝苦头；使付出沉重的代价

   to make sb suffer a lot

   That one mistake has cost him dear over the years.那一个差错使他多年来付出了沉重的代价。

电影里这样说 · 2 部

• Little dear, cost us dear!Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• Fourteen years of it. And it cost him dear too.Red River1948

同一词条的短语

• 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