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Idiomatic expressions for ’expensive’

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Alfonso
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 Message 25 of 28
06 July 2006 at 10:08pm | IP Logged 
administrator wrote:
Alfonso, these are great expressions, definitely export-grade! Are these mexicanismos?


The first one maybe not, but the second one is surely a "mexicanismo".
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Iversen
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 Message 26 of 28
25 July 2006 at 6:40am | IP Logged 
Danish:

Det koster en bondegård
(it costs a farm)

and a really weird one:

Det koster det hvide ud af øjnene
(It costs the white out of your eyes)



Edited by Iversen on 13 August 2006 at 11:49am

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 Message 27 of 28
25 July 2006 at 11:23am | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
and a really weird one:
Det koster det hvide ud af øjnene
(It costs the white out of your eyes)

That is weird!
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AML
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 Message 28 of 28
28 July 2006 at 11:23am | IP Logged 
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I love the English expression He bought the
company for a song
(He bought it for very little money).


Is that British English? Because I've never heard that expression before.


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