a pretty penny

基本解釋

So, you would need to pay a pretty penny to have one in your home.
所以，你要是想要搬一個回家的話，可得付相當(dāng)大的一筆款子。
Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, probably never thought a song he recorded 20 years ago would one day fetch a pretty penny on online auction sites.
日本下任首相鳩山由紀(jì)夫可能從未想過他20年前錄制的一首歌有一天會成為拍賣網(wǎng)站的大熱門，而且拍價不菲。
We often associate hefty salaries with corner offices, scalpels and law degrees – but it turns out you can pull in a pretty penny working outside the financial, medical or legal fields.
我們通常將可觀的收入與角落辦公室、外科手術(shù)刀和法律學(xué)位聯(lián)系到一起。然而，原來你在金融界、醫(yī)療界和法律界之外工作也會賺到可觀數(shù)目的金錢。

The reality: these marketers are forking over a pretty penny to reach a silver-haired consumer base.
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If the U.S. is facing this enormous bandwidth shortage, that spectrum is worth a pretty penny.
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Yes young Maxie may turn out to be a pretty penny of a payday.
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