put a price tag on
idiom
: to say how important or valuable something is
—usually used in negative statements to say that something is extremely important and valuable
You can't put a price tag on the safety of our children.
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One of the nation’s few environmental economists, Ando, a professor at The Ohio State University, tries to put a price tag on animals and ecosystems to make sure they’re adequately valued in our modern economy.
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Benji Jones, Vox, 19 June 2024
Who can put a price tag on that? Big cities, big bucks
The mayors in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose and San Diego — where mayors run the show and city councilling is essentially a full-time gig — make the most, of course.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 11 May 2024
But this time, the passengers put a price tag on their suffering — a big one.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
Meet Flip, the shopping app that will put a price tag on every single person in your phone’s contact list.
—Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
The tool uses average compensation data across roles and disciplines, along with meeting length and attendee count, to put a price tag on the event.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
To show the benefits seabirds provide, Plazas-Jiménez and his coauthor Marcus Cianciaruso, an ecologist at Goiás, set out to put a price tag on the animals’ poop.
—Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
The outside lawyers' contracts put a price tag on the fallout from Paxton's deputies accusing him of crimes in the service of a wealthy donor who employs a woman with whom the attorney general allegedly had an extramarital affair.
—Jake Bleiberg, ajc, 5 Jan. 2021
The first company to put a price tag on its pandemic drug, in late June, was Gilead Sciences, with remdesivir.
—Joe Nocera, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
Benji Jones, Vox, 19 June 2024
Who can put a price tag on that? Big cities, big bucks
The mayors in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose and San Diego — where mayors run the show and city councilling is essentially a full-time gig — make the most, of course.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 11 May 2024
But this time, the passengers put a price tag on their suffering — a big one.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
Meet Flip, the shopping app that will put a price tag on every single person in your phone’s contact list.
—Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
The tool uses average compensation data across roles and disciplines, along with meeting length and attendee count, to put a price tag on the event.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
To show the benefits seabirds provide, Plazas-Jiménez and his coauthor Marcus Cianciaruso, an ecologist at Goiás, set out to put a price tag on the animals’ poop.
—Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
The outside lawyers' contracts put a price tag on the fallout from Paxton's deputies accusing him of crimes in the service of a wealthy donor who employs a woman with whom the attorney general allegedly had an extramarital affair.
—Jake Bleiberg, ajc, 5 Jan. 2021
The first company to put a price tag on its pandemic drug, in late June, was Gilead Sciences, with remdesivir.
—Joe Nocera, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
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