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daylight robbery (An outrageously high price. An appliance store advertises a refrigerators for $900, but you see ads for the same brand and model elsewhere for half that price. That store, you conclude, is committing daylight robbery, a "crime" so metaphorically blatant that it is being committed in broad daylight. That's not to be confused with "highway robbery." "Daylight robbery" offers you the option of paying the money or not, but you don't have that choice in "highway robbery," just as the victim of a stagecoach holdup had no choice. Your city raises property taxes. You receive the bill, take one look, and scream, "That's highway robbery!": I need to find another mechanic because this bill is just daylight robbery! I can't believe how much he charged for a simple repair.
It's daylight robbery to charge that amount of money for a hotel room!
The cost of renting a car at that place is daylight robbery.
Have you seen the price of potted plants and fruit trees in garden centres recently? It's daylight robbery.
£6 000 for an old car like this? That's daylight robbery!  thefreedictionary.com Alexander Demidov) |
