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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 211. The idiom today is to cost an

  • arm and a leg. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If something costs an arm

  • and a leg, it is extremely expensive. All right . Let's continue. There are some

  • people who claim this phrase came from the idea that in former times painters

  • used to charge according to the amounts of limbs that were in a portrait.

  • However they say there is no proof to back up that claim. Yeah. So you might

  • have heard this on the Internet. You might hear other people claim this

  • because it's a lot of people who are spreading that this was the idea. But

  • they don't have any real proof to back this up a hundred percent. Others believe

  • it came from the high price many soldiers paid for defending their

  • country in World War two. Yeah. Unfortunately many soldiers might've

  • lost an arm or a leg fighting a battle. So there are some people believe it came from

  • that. Finally there are those that believe it may have come from earlier

  • phrases of one saying he or she would give their right arm for and maybe even

  • or even a leg for .... This one sounds the most likely out of all three , but either

  • way we have the phrase today. And it is a very common phrase and it's a very

  • common way of saying that something is expensive or too expensive. All right.

  • Let's just take a look at a couple of examples we have here. Example number one.

  • I would love to buy a Tesla car, but it cost an arm and a leg. It is really beyond

  • my budget. So I really can't afford that it cost an arm and a leg. All right. Let's

  • look at number two. I wouldn't waste my hard-earned money on buying an LV bag . It

  • cost an arm and a leg to own one. So if you're saying something cost an arm and

  • a leg, you already have the opinion that you think it's way too expensive or way

  • more costly than it should be. Anyway, I hope you got it . I hope it was clear.

  • Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 211. The idiom today is to cost an

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英語導師Nick P成語(211) Cost an Arm and a Leg(胳膊和腿的代價) (English Tutor Nick P Idioms (211) Cost an Arm and a Leg)

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