costing the earth
Absurdly high price
Costing the earth means extremely expensive, often prohibitively so: We wanted to renovate the kitchen, but the quotes were costing the earth.
The phrase suggests a price so high it might as well require the entire planet as payment.
More common in British English than American.
- priceyCosting a lot
- expensiveCosting much money
- dearTreasured or costly
- daylight robberyBlatant, shameless swindle
- breaking the bankExhausting financial resources completely
inestimable · prohibitive · exorbitant · overpriced · extravagant · high-priced · inflated · carbon emissions · unaffordable · ecological footprint · climate crisis · pretty penny · big bucks · top dollar · price tag · money · wastefulness · biodiversity loss
price/expense
costing the earthdirt cheap
Extremely low-priced
free · cheap as chips · for a song · affordable · inexpensive
cost, costs, costed, costly, costliness, earth, earths, earthly, earthen