spare no expense

English

Verb

spare no expense (third-person singular simple present spares no expense, present participle sparing no expense, simple past and past participle spared no expense)

1. To be willing to pay as much as necessary to achieve an objective.

Translations

do everything within one's powers to achieve something

• Finnish: maksoi mitä maksoi
• French: se mettre en frais (fr)
• Italian: non badare a spese
• Polish: nie oszczędzać impf, nie oszczędzić pf

See also

• spare no effort

Further reading

• “spare no expense”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “spare no expense”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “spare no expense” (US) / “spare no expense” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “no expense is spared”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “spare no expense”, in Collins English Dictionary.