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Complete Definition of "cost a pretty penny"

English

Verb
cost a pretty penny

  1. idiom To be expensive

#:It costs a pretty penny just to stay afloat. It takes a lot of lolly trying to be jolly. - w:Robert Wyatt|Robert Wyatt

Translations
Russian: вле�е�� в копее�к� (fly into a copeck), �да�и�� по ка�ман� (strike the pocket)
Spanish: costar un ojo de la cara (cost an eye of the face), costar un huevo (cost a testicle), costar un huevo y medio (cost a testicle and a half)

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