ultimate price
The final sacrifice
The ultimate price is death, typically in the context of sacrifice for a cause or others.
Soldiers who die in combat pay the ultimate price, as do those who give their lives protecting someone.
The phrase frames death as the highest cost one can pay—nothing beyond it can be demanded or given.
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- deathCessation of life
- martyrdomSuffering for conviction
- lay down one's lifeDie to save others
- costRequired payment amount
gave their lives · toll · life · blood · final · paid · grave · fallen · fallen soldier · hero · war · war dead · loss · valor · honor · fatal · reckoning · consequence
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- FaustianMephistopheles, Faust, Goethe, devil pact, Dr. Faustus
ultimate priceminor inconvenience
nominal fee · slap on the wrist · minor penalty · pocket change
ultimate pricecrowning glory
Greatest achievement or hair
jackpot · windfall · grand prize · eternal reward · heavenly reward
ultimate priceslap on the wrist
Trivially lenient penalty
scratch · bump in the road · nothing burger · drop in the bucket
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