pay through the nose
Example Sentences
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In other words, clients will manage their own portfolios rather than pay through the nose for fees.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Moreover, customers are always going to pay through the nose for tickets to high-profile, massively popular acts like Taylor Swift.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
We have one daughter and pay through the nose for private childcare.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2023
“I had no choice but to pay through the nose for cabbages,” said 56-year-old Sung Ok-Koung, a homemaker in Seoul, for whom making kimchi is an important family activity.
From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022
Why pay through the nose for contractors when you can do it yourself? he always said.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
