When quoting a remote project that involves travel, we calculate travel time as being "Portal to Portal", meaning cost is based on what I charge for travel time from home (or where ever the start point is) to the project location. Precepts lead, examples draw It is easiest learning at another’s cost.
To subsidize to contribute to paying part of the cost of to contribute to.Ī wedding at which the guests contribute payments to help cover the cost of the event and to benefit the newly-married couple. Gradual expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a military mission without careful planning.
I shall do it just the same I shall do it whatever it may cost.
IWORD COST PROFESSIONAL
Used to ask a professional the monetary cost of his/her services.Īt any cost for certain indicates the speaker is determined, resolute in doing something. In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income. To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.Īn issue to pursue with wholehearted conviction and/or single-minded focus, with little or no regard to the cost. To be interred (at the expense of the state, at one's own cost).
To exploit somebody in a way which results in an advantage to oneself, at the cost of the other party gaining a considerable disadvantage.įunere efferri or simply efferri (publice publico, suo sumptu) To say a thing has cost less than it has. To cost arm and a leg, to cost the earth: to cost too much, to be very expensiveĪ benefit that is also a liability, or that carries some significant but non-obvious cost or risk.Ī benefit that is also a liability, or that carries some significant but not-so-obvious cost or risk. To cost a small fortune, a fearful lot of money. To cost an arm and a leg: to cost too much, to be very expensive To be expensive, to cost an arm and a leg To get thirteen of any item, for the cost of twelve Without making any significant effort freely without monetary cost.Ī situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost. The difference between the cost of the fuel required to produce a unit of electricity, and the price of that same unit of electricity.Īn opportunity or benefit which has no cost, especially one enjoyed or undertaken at the expense of others. Hit them hard with the price/ cost/details/requirements/hard-facts/negative aspects/Sad Reality: The cost of a thing is reasonable and of good value. To exploit somebody in a way which result in an advantage to oneself, at the cost of the other party gaining a considerable disadvantage. After the battle Pyrrhus remarked: "One more such victory and we are finished." The phrase comes from the victory won by King Pyrrhus at Asculum in 279BC which cost him many of his best men. What is its price?, How much money do you want for it?Īn apparent victory, but one which is no victory at all, due to the great cost incurred. Something very expensive and not worth the cost in few cases