Idiom
daylight robbery
Meaning
The practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Paying ten dollars for a small bottle of water is daylight robbery.”
“The hotel charged us fifty dollars for parking, which felt like absolute daylight robbery.”
“The sudden increase in subscription fees for a service that offers no new features is nothing short of daylight robbery.”
Examples
simple
“Paying ten dollars for a small bottle of water is daylight robbery.”
contextual
“The hotel charged us fifty dollars for parking, which felt like absolute daylight robbery.”
complex
“The sudden increase in subscription fees for a service that offers no new features is nothing short of daylight robbery.”
Origin
From daylight + robbery, originally used literally to refer to robbery occurring in the daytime rather than at night, which was thought to be more audacious or risky.
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