pay through the nose

2023. 6. 20. 23:26ใ†English Idioms

"Pay through the nose" is an idiom that means to pay a very high price for something. It suggests that the cost or amount of money you have to pay is excessive or much more than you expected or think is reasonable. The phrase comes from the idea of someone paying so much money that it feels like they are being forced to pay through their nose, which is obviously a painful and unpleasant experience.

 

For example, imagine you want to buy a new phone, and the store is charging an extremely high price for it. If you decide to buy it despite the high cost, you would be "paying through the nose" for that phone because you are paying a lot more than you think is fair or necessary.

 

In essence, "paying through the nose" is a vivid way of expressing the idea of paying an exorbitant amount of money for something, emphasizing the feeling of financial burden or hardship that comes along with it.

 

"Pay through the nose"๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์˜ ๊ด€์šฉ๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ท€ํ•˜๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธˆ์•ก์ด ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ท€ํ•˜๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋งŽ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•”์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ๋ˆ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฝ”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐ•์ œ๋กœ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๊ณ ํ†ต์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ์พŒํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์ƒˆ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์—์„œ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์‹ผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋งค๊ธด๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ์ƒํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋†’์€ ๋น„์šฉ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ณต์ •ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํ•ด๋‹น ์ „ํ™”๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด "์ฝ”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง€๋ถˆ"ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ "paying by the nose"๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๋ˆ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ์ƒ์ƒํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์œผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์žฌ์ •์  ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด๋‚˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

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