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'Cost an arm and a leg' means

ABe very expensive
BLose limbs in an accident
CBe very cheap
DBe free of cost
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Be very expensive
1. Hyperbolic idiom for high price. 2. Limbs are figurative. 3. Cheap is the opposite. 4. Hence option A. _Source: jkchrome.com SSC Idioms and Phrases PDF (Mistral OCR), section on common idioms_
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