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B2 — Upper Intermediate💼 Work & Money

Fare il salasso

To bleed dry / to fleece

Literal Translation

"To perform a bloodletting"

What it means

To charge excessively high prices

Example in context

"Quel avvocato ha fatto il salasso con le sue parcelle."

"That lawyer bled us dry with his fees."

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