pay through the nose

Moreover, customers are always going to pay through the nose for tickets to high-profile, massively popular acts like Taylor Swift.

We have one daughter and pay through the nose for private childcare.

That's why they were likely willing to pay through the nose to make the Dominion lawsuit go away.

“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.

He also said government vouchers, which allow families to choose the school that best fits their values, are the most efficient way to protect parents’ “right to raise their children” without having to “pay through the nose” for private schooling.