What price success?

What price success?
What price [fame/success/victory etc.]? something that you say which means it is possible that the fame, success etc. that has been achieved was not worth all the suffering it has caused.

What price victory when so many people have died to make it possible?


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • What price [fame/success/victory etc.]? — something that you say which means it is possible that the fame, success etc. that has been achieved was not worth all the suffering it has caused. What price victory when so many people have died to make it possible? …   New idioms dictionary

  • What price fame? — What price [fame/success/victory etc.]? something that you say which means it is possible that the fame, success etc. that has been achieved was not worth all the suffering it has caused. What price victory when so many people have died to make… …   New idioms dictionary

  • What price victory? — What price [fame/success/victory etc.]? something that you say which means it is possible that the fame, success etc. that has been achieved was not worth all the suffering it has caused. What price victory when so many people have died to make… …   New idioms dictionary

  • What price ...? — What price [fame/success/victory etc.]? something that you say which means it is possible that the fame, success etc. that has been achieved was not worth all the suffering it has caused. What price victory when so many people have died to make… …   New idioms dictionary

  • what price — [fame/success/victory etc.]? something that you say which means it is possible that the fame, success etc. that has been achieved was not worth all the suffering it has caused. What price victory when so many people have died to make it possible? …   New idioms dictionary

  • price — [[t]pra͟ɪs[/t]] ♦ prices, pricing, priced 1) N COUNT: usu with supp, also in N The price of something is the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy it. ...a sharp increase in the price of petrol... They expected house prices to rise …   English dictionary

  • price — price1 [ praıs ] noun *** 1. ) count the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy something: They charge the same prices in all their restaurants. The cameras range in price from $150 to over $600. The price per person goes down for… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • price — 1 /praIs/ noun 1 MONEY (C, U) the amount of money for which something is sold, bought, or offered: Fuel prices are rising steadily. (+ of): Can you tell me what the price of a new window would be? | They agreed on a price of 2000 for the car. |… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • price — I UK [praɪs] / US noun Word forms price : singular price plural prices *** 1) [countable] the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy something They charge the same prices in all their restaurants. The cameras range in price from… …   English dictionary

  • price — price1 W1S1 [praıs] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: pris, from Latin pretium price, money ] 1.) [U and C] the amount of money you have to pay for something ▪ People are prepared to pay high prices for designer clothes. price of ▪ The… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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