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"be high maintenance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that requires a lot of attention, work, or expense. For example, "She is a high maintenance girlfriend; she expects me to take her out every Friday night."
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The flowering plants available, though, tended to emphasize color above all else and to be high maintenance.
Although Andrea could be high maintenance, insisting on special security measures when she spoke at conferences or other public venues (her life had been threatened more than once), there was no monstrous ego to deal with, and nothing of the spoilt, pampered middle-class feminist we Brits had come to dread in our north American sisters.
"When recruiters see so much self-promotion, they think, this person's going to be high maintenance, or they're trying to hide something".
In other words, attractive people look like they'd be high maintenance, and no one wants to hire a high maintenance person to do hard and unrewarding entry level work.
Colored hair can be high maintenance.
Virgos can be high maintenance because of their desire for perfection.
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And Cheryl Cole would be higher maintenance.
Of course, the trade-off could be higher maintenance costs, she says.
"They're high maintenance.
"I'm high maintenance.
He's high maintenance.
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