pay the earth

It is possible to pay the earth for beauty products.

And you don't have to pay the earth for them either', he said.

Why does the public flock to Chelsea and pay the earth?

Would I be able to get any decent solo rooms there without paying the earth?

For that fortnight you had to pay the earth!

Merilyn must have paid the earth to have the mature ivy transplanted, but the effect was wonderful.

"The great advantage of clubbing together like this," one mother reflected at the end, "is that you can stay in such a grand place without paying the earth."

("We pay the earth for fresh crab," Ms. Panjabi said, "because frozen crab doesn't do it.")

'And when I think that I paid the earth three days ago to have a facial at that new salon in Sloane Street.'

"Isn't there somewhere else to go," I asked my friend Stefan, halfway through a telemark lesson in Lapland, "without paying the earth for heli-skiing?"

'You don't have to pay the earth,' says Bruno, who cooked for 30 youngsters at St Joseph's Infant and Primary school in southeast London.

Antiquarian booksellers, like myself, and ardent collectors, feel it is all-important for a book to be a first edition and will sometimes pay the earth to buy such a treasure.

The choice of wallpapers is enormous, with prices to match at every stage up and down the scale, but you don't have to pay the earth to achieve a very luxurious look.

"This is a great strategic fit, and they didn't pay the earth and the moon," said John Tinker, an analyst with Montgomery Securities, who noted that American Radio fetched a lower cash-flow multiple than two companies, Paxson and Viacom, that recently sold radio stations.

It need hardly be added that there was nothing philanthropic in lord dexter's offer of free hospitality: he merely jacked up his prices to the wealthy occupants of the other eleven suites, who would have paid the earth anyway for the privilege of voyaging in such close contact with such exalted company.