too rich for my blood
1
8.4
- idiom
- Informal
:
demasiado caro para mí
- It's just it's a little too rich for my blood Cake.
Examples
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I wanted to buy that luxury car, but at $100,000, it was too rich for my blood.
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It's too rich for my blood.
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Little too rich for my blood.
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The price of that designer handbag seemed too rich for my blood, so I decided to wait for a sale.
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After looking at the ticket prices for the concert, I realized it was too rich for my blood.
Synonyms
74
2.0
Costs more money than someone can afford
31
3.5
Costing a lot of money
9
4.0
Costing a lot of money
2
5.6
To spend more money than you can afford
Antonyms
How Expensive
25
7.9
- Informal
1
8.4
∞
1.0
- Informal
54
4.4
307
2.1
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase contains a transparent element—'too rich' clearly signals something excessive—but the segment 'for my blood' is idiomatic and does not literally mean the speaker's blood. Because the overall conventional sense ('too expensive or beyond my taste/tolerance') relies on metaphorical use of 'blood' and cultural convention, a learner who only knows the words may guess 'too much' but not reliably derive the precise meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Too rich for my blood may come from talking about food that was so rich and heavy it felt bad for your blood or body. One popular story says people used that image to mean something was more than they could take, so today it means 'too expensive' or 'more than I want to pay'.