small fortune

A large amount of money. I had to spend a small fortune to get my car repaired after the transmission started slipping.

a rather sizeable amount of money. This set of wheels cost me a small fortune. I've got a small fortune tied up in test equipment.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Encarna	en-KAHR-nah	Spanish
Vencel	-	Hungarian
SreĆKo	-	Croatian, Serbian
Aloysius	al-ə-WISH-əs	English
Alexandrine	al-eg-zan-DREEN (French), ah-lek-sahn-DREE-nə (German)	French, German
Kirsti	KEER-stee	Finnish