price

PRICE

medical jargon An acronym for "protection, rest, ice, compression, and elevation," advice given for the home treatment of minor injuries such as sprains or strains. The doctor examined my ankle. Thankfully, I shouldn't need surgery or medication, just PRICE.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See:
  • a price on (one's) head
  • a price on head
  • a price on somebody's head
  • a price on someone's head
  • a set price
  • a thing you don't want is dear at any price
  • asking price
  • at a price
  • at all costs
  • at any cost
  • at any price
  • beyond price
  • beyond/without price
  • cheap at half the price
  • cheap at the price
  • cheap at twice the price
  • come at a price
  • cutthroat prices
  • drive a price down
  • drive a price up
  • drive a/the/(something's) price down
  • drive a/the/(something's) price up
  • drive down a/the/(something's) price
  • every man has his price
  • every man/everyone has his price
  • everyone has their price
  • for a price
  • force a/the/(something's) price up
  • get a price on (one's) head
  • have a price on (one's) head
  • know the price of everything and the value of nothing
  • name a/the/(one's) price (for something)
  • not at any price
  • of great price
  • pay the price
  • pay the price, to
  • pay the price/penalty
  • pearl of great price, a
  • PRICE
  • price (oneself, someone, or something) out of the market
  • price down
  • price in
  • price is right, the
  • price on one's head
  • price one has to pay
  • price out
  • price out of the market
  • price up
  • price yourself out of the market
  • price yourself/something out of the market
  • put (something) at
  • put a price (tag) on (something)
  • put a price on (someone's) head
  • put a price on something
  • quote a price
  • quote a price (for something)
  • quote a price of (some amount of money)
  • roll back
  • roll prices back
  • sell for (something)
  • sell for a certain price
  • set a/the/(one's) price (for something)
  • set price
  • something you don't want is dear at any price
  • starting price
  • the price (one) has to pay
  • the price is right
  • thing you don't want is dear at any price
  • What does that have to do with the price of corn?
  • what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
  • what price
  • What price (something)?
  • what price...?
  • What price?
  • What's that got to do with the price of cheese?
  • What's that got to do with the price of eggs?
  • What's that got to do with the price of fish?
  • What's that got to do with the price of meat?
  • What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?
References in classic literature
"It's the best school in Paris," said Miss Price. "It's the only one where they take art seriously."
"Should art be taken seriously?" the young man asked; and since Miss Price replied only with a scornful shrug, he added: "But the point is, all schools are bad.
Miss Price, who is cultured, will remember the Latin of that."
"Miss Price dislikes me because I have humour," said Clutton, looking meditatively at his canvas, "but she detests me because I have genius."
Of Human Bondage
'Well,' said Miss Price, beckoning him aside, and speaking with some degree of contempt--'you ARE a one to keep company.'
'No, nor I neither," rejoined Miss Price; 'but men are always fickle, and always were, and always will be; that I can make out, very easily.'
'Oh no, I think nothing at all,' retorted Miss Price, pettishly.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Little did she understand the artifices of the selfish and calculating, one of the most familiar of their frauds being to conceal from the skillful their own success, lest it should command a price in proportion to its claims.
The furniture of this little apartment was very respectable, for Madame de la Rocheaimard, besides paying a pretty fair rent, had hired it just after the revolution, when the prices had fallen quite half, and the place had, by no means, the appearance of that poverty which actually reigned within.
Her mind wandered over her hopes and fears, recurring to her other labors, and the prices she received for occupations so wearying and slavish.
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
Price, and creditable to ourselves, we must secure to the child, or consider ourselves engaged to secure to her hereafter, as circumstances may arise, the provision of a gentlewoman, if no such establishment should offer as you are so sanguine in expecting."
Price seemed rather surprised that a girl should be fixed on, when she had so many fine boys, but accepted the offer most thankfully, assuring them of her daughter's being a very well-disposed, good-humoured girl, and trusting they would never have cause to throw her off.
Mansfield Park
'You'd hardly think, would you now,' said Price, turning towards Mr.
'Chances be d--d,' replied Price; 'he hasn't half the ghost of one.
Price to the attendant, who in dress and general appearance looked something between a bankrupt glazier, and a drover in a state of insolvency; 'and a glass of brandy-and-water, Crookey, d'ye hear?
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club