buy sth at the cost / expense / price of sth

buy sth at the cost / expense / price of sth to get something that you want, but only by losing something else牺牲某事物去换取某事物:•The town has been careful not to buy prosperity at the expense of its character.这小镇小心地避免为了繁荣而失去它的特色。

• silver paper
• a passage of arms
• rejection
• good egg
• tax deduction
• papistical
• (a case of) dog eat dog
• Sakajawea
• trusties
• yaping
• ruralization
• deal in sth
• pombe
• call something off
• test type
• armchair critic
• phonotactic
• rheebok
• without doubt
• JD
• facadism
• law-list
• midbody
• PSO
• Neo-Thomist
• nemertine
• dioptric
• defiber
• stick to one's colours
• that's (past / ancient) history
• be / keep / stay one step ahead (of sb)
• Catholic school
• borty
• ineffaceability
• disinterestednesses
• one-under
• reconfigures
• skeletals
• demoralizes
• take sb’s mind off
• seroepidemiology
• green flash
• get a buzz out of
• blastogenesis
• refractorinesses
• tank (sth) up
• imposturing
• tellurium dichloride
• gamma heating
• repped
• Horney, Karen
• ambilateral
• rosepoint
• fortifyingly
• blairs
• scope the pool
• have / get sth under your belt
• .pdd
• cystolith
• exotically
• pyromanias
• clifford trusts
• sezessions
• be/get past it
• sixpenny
• political-risk analyst
• Levantines
• Wolfgang
• at the helm
• anharmonicities
• set on a cast
• extrapulmonary
• fall in（或 into）line
• home farm
• eggcups
• cellulose acetates
• alembics
• distenders
• anode saturation
• hawgs
• desecrator
• self-advertisements
• guildhalls
• alicias
• Caligoida
• theoretic
• apposition suture
• sinuateness
• boardsailer
• matchboard
• city-born
• a man of decision
• W's
• cross-section
• punnets
• GUT
• placelessly
• zoö-
• mavises
• deformed nuclear