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- adjective So
expensive that (figuratively) it would make one's eyeswater
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Examples
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The revelation raises questions about a senior government minister's angry and direct attack on John Yates, Scotland Yard's counter - terrorism chief. police chiefs "eyewatering" cuts of £150m to the budget to fight terrorism would endanger the public, triggering a political row after his claim was leaked.
Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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John Yates, Scotland Yard's head of counterterrorism, that "eyewatering" cuts of £150m to the budget to fight violent extremism would endanger the public.
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Having said that however let me admire you for being in a proffession that makes truely eyewatering amounts of money!
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The lack of eyewatering amounts of work may have had something to do with it.
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In the year to June 30 2010, United paid £42m interest on the £500m loans the Glazer family originally took out to buy the club in the first place, and just refinancing that debt, replacing the loans with a bond, cost United an eyewatering £65m, cash.
Record income but record losses for Premier League | David Conn 2011
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The colouring on these spreads varied from the subtle to the eyewatering, but was always superior – in my opinion – to the slapdash colouring on the Eagle versions.
Stainless Steel Art (8) « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009
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The doom-mongery about the music business is put into sobering perspective by the eyewatering statistics concerning Take That's live reunion with Robbie Williams, touring with them for the first since 1995.
Take That – review 2011
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But he has also appointed new staff on eyewatering salaries.
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Believed to be somewhere in the region of an eyewatering £90m in debt, Bolton could help bring a smile to the face of their bank manager in the new year by offloading centre-half Gary Cahill to Arsenal for £10m.
Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to sign Johan Elmander? Barry Glendenning 2010
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Since then, England's highest-earning club has poured out an eyewatering £400m in interest, bank fees and charges, yet still the total debt has mushroomed, to £716m.
Glazer family's Tampa Bay austerity bodes ill for Manchester United 2010
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