cost dear

• cost dearly

cost dear (third-person singular simple present costs dear, present participle costing dear, simple past and past participle cost dear)

1. To be expensive. [with to ‘someone’]
2. (by extension) To cause a lot of pain or suffering.

• “cost sb dear”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “cost dear”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “cost somebody dear dearly” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “cost somebody dear” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “to cost someone dear”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “cost someone dear”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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