0 a situation in which you have to pay far too much money for something: --
1 → daylight robbery --
It is proposed to return a mere three-eighths of the loot of a highway robbery.
To do otherwise would be municipal highway robbery and would meet with massive opposition.
The process is more like highway robbery than a reticent transaction.
It is simply the principle of highway robbery.
Those rights are, for practical reasons, subject to certain restrictions, inherent in the scheme, and there is no question of any highway robbery.
If they constituted highway robbery at one time, presumably they do both times.
Tolls on top of that are highway robbery.
It is highway robbery to charge full price for something worth a few pence.
