king's ransom

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   a very large treasure

   Broadertreasure

Questions about king's ransom

What does king's ransom mean?

king's ransom means "a very large treasure".

Is king's ransom a common word?

king's ransom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.