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___ an arm and a leg (be expensive)

By Daniel Moore
•A rib; a side; a region or coast.•See Cottise.•of Cost•To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.•To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.•The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.•Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.•Expenses incurred in litigation.