Extremely dear at the price?
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Could you tell me what the phrase bold means?
How do you manage, Biddy," said I, "to learn everything that I learn, and always to keep up with me?" I was beginning to be rather vain of my knowledge, for I spent my birthday guineas on it, and set aside the greater part of my pocket-money for similar investment; though I have no doubt, now, that the little I knew was extremely dear at the price.
Source: https://genius.com/Charles-dickens-great-expectations-chap-17-annotated
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dear: (British) Expensive. com/definition/us/dear Books were expensive. Books sold at a high price.
- dear: (British) Expensive.
- com/definition/us/dear Books were expensive.
- Books sold at a high price.
- CJ
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dear: (British) Expensive.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/dear
Books were expensive. Books sold at a high price.
CJ
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