单词 | itll cost you |
释义 | > as lemmasit’ll cost you 4. transitive. colloquial. With the person affected as object: to prove very expensive to (a person); to cause (a person) loss, sacrifice, or suffering. Frequently with non-referential it as subject, esp. in it’ll cost you.Cf. earlier to cost (a person) dear (also dearly) at Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1881 Youth's Compan. 14 July 254/1 You'll have it to pay for, or it'll cost you—it'll cost you dear. 1929 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 22 Nov. 20/1 It's gonna cost you, because I'm taking chances. 1974 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 4 Oct. b3/4 Today is the day you can chew me out for a column you didn't like in the last year. But it'll cost you. 1992 H. Owen Littlejohn vi. 71 It was the first time I had ever sassed a grown person, and I knew it was going to cost me. 1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Dec. 60/1 Barak has tried to guide an entire country by steely instinct... He has stood his ground, even when it cost him. 2014 Radio Times 6 Sept. (South/West ed.) 153/1 From the moment the little darlings appear, they cost you. < as lemmas |
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