over the odds

over the odds

1. (UK, informal) More than necessary; too much

   If you wait til next week, you'll find yourself paying over the odds for the tickets.

   • 2013 October 15, Rory Cellan-Jones, “Supercell: Europe’s supercharged games success”, in BBC News‎:

     This might look like another of those dotcom deals, where a wealthy corporate giant pays over the odds for a business with big user numbers but no concrete business plan.

• Usually collocated with a verb such as pay.

• pay through the nose

• “pay over the odds” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “over the odds”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “over the odds” (US) / “over the odds” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.