Once more, we are here to talk about idioms in Portuguese. The one of today, in English would be “to cost an arm and a leg”, which you must have already heard of. If something costs an arm and a leg, it means that it is something very expensive. But how do you say that in Portuguese? It is what we are going to see below.
To cost an arm and a leg in the Portuguese version is almost the same thing, with the difference that the part of the body that is supposed to be assessed is the eyes, so in Portuguese it would be: “custar o olho da cara”, what in English would be literally (do you know how to say “literally” in Portuguese? If not, click here!) translated as: “to cost an eye of the face”. Let’ s see an example.
E.g: “Este vestido custa o olho da cara!”.
Its literal translation would be: “This dress costs an eye of the face!”, and we already obviously know that it means that the dress costs an arm and a leg in English, or that the dress is very expensive.
So now, you already know how to say that something is very expensive in Portuguese, remember: “custar o olho da cara”. Thus, next time you see something that costs an arm and a leg in your stay in Portugal or in Brazil, for instance, and you need to express that exactly to someone, you already know how to do it.
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