cost out
cost out
To determine the total cost of something by adding smaller costs together. When we cost out all the steps of our home renovation project, we knew that it was going to exceed the amount we had budgeted.
See also: cost, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
cost something out
to figure out the total cost of some set of costs or a complex purchase of goods or services. Give me a minute to cost this out, and I will have an estimate for you. Do you have time to cost out these specifications this week?
See also: cost, out
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- cost up
- eat
- eat (someone or something)
- eat it
- eat me
- estimate the cost at
- estimate the cost at (something)
- and hang the cost
- cost
- cost (one) dear