View synonyms for top dollar

top dollar

noun

, Informal.

the maximum amount being or likely to be paid:
to pay top dollar for the jewelry.

top dollar

The highest price, as in They'll have to pay top dollar at that resort . [Second half of 1900s]

So people are essentially paying top dollar to look, like you said, “alternative.”

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, revelers were shelling out top dollar for their costumes that year, too.

Whether a world leader can command top dollar also depends on the global economy.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Browse