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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