What price something?

What price something?
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?


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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