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Extremely expensive; requiring an exorbitantly high financial price.
"Front-row concert tickets to the arena tour cost an arm and a leg."
"Repairing the vintage sports car engine is going to cost an arm and a leg."
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Grounds psychological states or physical commitment in human bodily anatomy ('arm, leg').
Originated following World War I and II, when wounded veterans returned having sacrificed limbs ("an arm and a leg") as the ultimate price of service.
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