highway robbery

Example Sentences

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Molly got five bucks, and Fred let her know it was frickin’ highway robbery.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

“This is highway robbery without a gun. It’s not just us that they’re taking from. It’s our families who struggle to make ends meet and send us money, they are the real victims.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2018

While we wait to learn whether his largess has unexpected consequences, let us savor Mike’s highway robbery.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2016

I really don’t want to go back to the diapers and midnight feedings, etc., not to mention highway robbery of daycare costs.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015

He had been seen; and that night he was led, a fettered man, to the jail of H——, charged with highway robbery.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various