" Cost an arm and a leg" is a phrase that can be used to establish something for being very costly or expensive compared to feasible price.
by LTpanther September 8, 2025
Get the Cost an arm and a legmug. The opposite of "cost effective"; money spent on projects which ultimately backfire or fail; spending money in an ill-advised manner.
Board Meeting Speaker: People, we need to get back to basics. We need to become thrifty again! So, the board has approved the purchase of new, more environmentally-friendly furniture to replace all of our existing furniture, which we just bought new six months ago. We're going to multi-task by going green and saving green simultaneously. As a side-note...no raises for the next 2 years to help implement our new thrifty phase. Comments anyone?
Sarcastic Attendee: Yeah, sounds very "cost defective" to me!
Sarcastic Attendee: Yeah, sounds very "cost defective" to me!
by chickypoo247 September 30, 2012
Get the cost defectivemug. A cost accountant or CMA( Cost and Management Accountant ) is a person experts in the field of commerce , Cost , and cost audit.
by cmayashsoni November 28, 2021
Get the cost accountantmug. spamming the groupchat, drinking a whole case of beer like your life depends on it, pretending to be more intoxicated then you actually are
"Dude no one wants to see your lunch, stop making me pay the cookie cost."
"Dude no one wants to see your lunch, stop making me pay the cookie cost."
by the mystery sphinx May 29, 2023
Get the The Cookie Costmug. A calculation on how much time, effort and money should be invested in a relationship per nut reached from it.
by MsMiller January 27, 2025
Get the CPN (Cost-Per-Nut)mug. An Individual or group of individuals displaying motivations for their behaviors solely based on the acquisition of resources in the most efficient and corporate based manner. What is profitable and 'good for the company' is a metaphor that drives their entire life outlook and moral/social philosophy.
"I swear Tony would sell his own children for the right price, I wonder if he has any emotions at all." "yeah, That new corporate job has given him cost affective disorder"
by duitbrains June 12, 2014
Get the cost affective disordermug. A fumingly-sarcastic reference to a shamelessly "sneaky 'n' unethical" (and unfortunately very common!) "buy-pressure" strategy practiced at many hardware/specialty-supplies stores; the ploy consists of a staffperson's hacking off a length from a roll of bulk-product like rope, wire, hose, or cloth, and only **afterwards** informing the customer how much the product is priced per foot, hoping that said customer will then feel obligated to buy the piece "since it's already been cut off the roll".
I once had a totally pathetic "cost-cutting maneuver" tried on me at a bicycle-repair shop --- I needed a rear shift-cable, and so the clerk cut off my required length of cable from the store's bulk roll, without first telling me the super-steep per-foot price or asking me beforehand if I wanted to pay that much. It was only when he actually brought the "ringing up the sale" screen up on the computer that he revealed the astronomical amount that it was gonna cost me --- a whopping SEVEN DOLLARS AND CHANGE! --- for just three or four feet of the cable! Fortunately, I had the "bravery" to just look mildly shocked and hastily remark, "Eeeyewww... that's a lot more than I can afford --- thank you anyway, though. I'll just get one at WalMart instead." Hey, it wasn't MY fault if the salesman had created a harder-to-resell cut piece of cable --- I hadn't asked him to chop me off some of the cable yet, I'd just told him that I needed a replacement shifter-cable, so it wasn't my "responsibility" to now PAY for said cable! He should have told me beforehand how much it would cost per foot, and then asked me if I wanted to buy it before he'd actually hacked the length off the roll!
by QuacksO November 1, 2018
Get the cost-cutting maneuvermug.