"cost an arm and a leg"

[Fred Shapiro]

The earliest Nexis has for this is Business Week, Feb. 17, 1975, but it is
undoubtedly uch older than that.


Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
  and Lecturer in Legal Research            ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
Yale Law School                             Oxford University Press, 1998
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               ISBN 0-19-509547-2