big-ticket

big ticket

Very expensive. This phrase is usually hyphenated and used before a noun (especially "item"). I'm living paycheck to paycheck as it is, so I can't afford a big-ticket item like a car right now. The pop star was always drawn to frivolous big-ticket purchases, such as sports cars and rare works of art. We've never had much money, so a brand new furniture set is something of a big-ticket item for us.
See also: big, ticket
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

big-ticket

mod. having to do with something expensive. In a survey taken last month, heads of families said they were unwilling to put big-ticket items at the bottom of their shopping lists.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • big ticket
  • the roof caves in
  • the roof falls in
  • generous
  • be just before you're generous
  • round robin
  • a round robin
  • black market
  • a light touch
  • wiggy
References in periodicals archive
Critically, the system also assures that salespeople who contribute to a sale at any point in the shopping process are compensated accordingly, removing a key friction point in traditional big-ticket selling channel conflict.
With the acquisition of the big-ticket orders, Wistron will see the ratio of shipments to Hewlett Packard over its total shipments reach 15%.
Will this hesitancy to increase their debt and a negative "wealth effect" associated with declining home prices mean consumers will spend less on big-ticket items this Christmas season?
The seam usually targets consumers who sell big-ticket items such as automobiles, boats, and electronic equipment but can now include the sale of animals, house rentals, and more.
Among their more exciting big-ticket projects a new theatrical attraction in San Antonio, Texas.
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Shoppers came out in force for the January sales after the relatively-subdued Christmas, but still remained wary of 'big-ticket' purchases such as carpets and some furniture.
For that reason, Americans have felt more comfortable buying big-ticket items, from SUVs to new computers to Disney World vacations.
Jaffe attributes the long wake-up call to the Army's penchant for big-ticket equipment designed for big wars.
To accelerate development of its far-flung regions, Hokkaido and Okinawa, Japan's central government set up agencies to build scores of big-ticket dams, bridges, ports and roads.
Orders for big-ticket goods at factories dropped 3.1 percent in November, as stated by the Commerce Department; contradictory data released by the Institute of Supply Management shows American manufacturing surging to its highest level in 20 years.
The industrial revolution is inherently exploitative, and providing the poor with more money to buy big-ticket items will not change the abusive nature of our way of life.
Mexican tourists wait months for visas to go to Florida, while foreign buyers of big-ticket items such as planes and construction equipment can't get into the country to finalize sales.
Hollywood is heading south these days, shooting ever more productions below the Rio Grande and sparking fierce competition to pull in big-ticket foreign productions, which pump millions of dollars into local economies.