"king’s ransom" meaning in Anglais

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions nominales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "En référence aux sommes exceptionnellement élevées demandées contre la libération du roi. → voir king et ransom"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "king’s ransoms",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˌkɪŋz ˈɹæn.səmz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Métaphores en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman, chapitre 12, 1825",
          "text": "“But to yonder pavilion . . . the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king’s ransom.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Jane Feather, Rushed to the Altar, Pocket Books (2010),ISBN 9781439145241, p. 386, 2010",
          "text": "Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king’s ransom of diamonds."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Très grosse somme d’argent."
      ],
      "id": "fr-king’s_ransom-en-noun-H~6oYF2z",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˌkɪŋz ˈɹæn.səm\\"
    },
    {
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      "raw_tags": [
        "Australie"
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fortune"
    }
  ],
  "word": "king’s ransom"
}

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    "Locutions nominales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "En référence aux sommes exceptionnellement élevées demandées contre la libération du roi. → voir king et ransom"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "king’s ransoms",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˌkɪŋz ˈɹæn.səmz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Métaphores en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman, chapitre 12, 1825",
          "text": "“But to yonder pavilion . . . the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king’s ransom.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Jane Feather, Rushed to the Altar, Pocket Books (2010),ISBN 9781439145241, p. 386, 2010",
          "text": "Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king’s ransom of diamonds."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Très grosse somme d’argent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "\\ˌkɪŋz ˈɹæn.səm\\"
    },
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      "raw_tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fortune"
    }
  ],
  "word": "king’s ransom"
}