cost someone dear

“Cost someone dear” is an idiom that means to cause someone to spend a lot of money or lose money. It can also mean to cause someone a lot of problems.
اصطلاحی است به معنای باعث این شدن که کسی پول زیادی خرج کند یا پولی را از دست بدهد. همچنین می تواند به معنای ایجاد مشکلات زیادی برای کسی باشد.
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Buying that second - hand car without having it checked by a mechanic first cost us dear.
Later that year he attacked a photographer, an incident that cost him dear.