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that's going to be expensive!

Comes from occasional practice of piercing an indentured servant's septum and hanging a chain from his nose until he had worked off the debt.

Having to pay a large sum for an item/service/etc.

paying through the nose means paying too much for something or that you give more money for something than its worth or to spend too much money for something that is a ripoff.

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