What price?
What price (something)?
A question indicating one's doubt that an achievement is or was worth the cost in terms of the problems it has led to or the sacrifices that it required. Most commonly seen in the phrase "What price fame?" When you have to have a security detail just to go to the grocery store, you have to ask: What price fame? What price wealth, when you sell out everything you believe in along the way?
See also: price, what
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
What price something?
What is the value of something?; What good is something? (Said when the value of the thing referred to is being diminished or ignored.) Jane's best friend told us all about Jane's personal problems. What price friendship? Jack simply declared himself president of the political society. What price democracy?
See also: what
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- what price
- What price (something)?
- what price...?
- tighten (one's) belt
- tighten belt
- tighten one’s belt
- tighten one's belt
- tighten your belt
- have letters after (one's) name
- take one’s belt in