VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Highway robbery

Meaning:

This expression is used to refer to a price or a fee that is exorbitantly high.

Examples:

  • I mean, this is literally highway robbery.
  • This is a highway robbery.
  • However, we also expect an alpine traffic policy to be based on a set of uniform rules applicable throughout Europe rather than the methods of highway robbery and the robber barons.
  • Of all the kinds of stealing, highway robbery is the worst.
  • Actually, I wouldn't rule out a highway robbery.
  • This is literally a highway robbery.
  • This is highway robbery.
  • This is highway robbery.
  • Man, that's highway robbery.
  • Neither do I mean that a man who commits petty theft will necessarily commit highway robbery.