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what price

what price phrase: what must be lost or sacrificed to gain ___?

Phrase

what price

  1. (idiomatic) What must be lost or sacrificed to gain ___?
    • What price freedom, after so many years of war?
  2. (idiomatic) What are the chances of ___ succeeding?
    • His eyes went to the group of weapons again and the sight gave him a new idea.
      "Aha, what price this?" he cried, and pulling a short sword out of its sheath he drove it in between mask and wall and levered the shell away, nails and all.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Questions about what price

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What price means what must be lost or sacrificed to gain ___?
What part of speech is what price?
What price is a phrase.

Words near what price in the dictionary

  1. what now
  2. what number
  3. what o'clock is it
  4. what of
  5. what of it
  6. what price
  7. what say
  8. what say you
  9. what seems to be the problem
  10. what should I do
  11. what someone is about

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