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Discover Ludwig"highway robbery" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a metaphor used to illustrate when something is very expensive. For example: "My cable bill is highway robbery! It's way too expensive."
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highway robbery
noun
The act of robbing a traveler on a public road.
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It is highway robbery.
"It was highway robbery," he said.
The husband used clichés: "held up" and "highway robbery".
Falstaff takes bribes, flops in battle, commits highway robbery.
"It was highway robbery without a gun," Ruiz said.
The Long Road to Venice: How to ditch a car and survive highway robbery in Italy.
"Sheer highway robbery," read one recent comment about The New Yorker in the App Store.
He was killed during a highway robbery in 1994 while vacationing with his family in Italy.
How could ending this highway robbery be bad for the economy?
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-Highway Robbery, BY JOHN BILLHEIMER.
Meanwhile, IAB's Scott Cunningham tried to criminalize adblockers by calling it 'highway robbery' at a New York convention last year.
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