Meaning:
This expression is used to refer to a price or a fee that is exorbitantly high.
Examples:
- I mean, this is literally highway robbery.
- This is a highway robbery.
- However, we also expect an alpine traffic policy to be based on a set of uniform rules applicable throughout Europe rather than the methods of highway robbery and the robber barons.
- Of all the kinds of stealing, highway robbery is the worst.
- Actually, I wouldn't rule out a highway robbery.
- This is literally a highway robbery.
- This is highway robbery.
- This is highway robbery.
- Man, that's highway robbery.
- Neither do I mean that a man who commits petty theft will necessarily commit highway robbery.