highway robbery vs lavish

highway robbery

noun
  • The act of robbing a traveler on a public road. 

  • Said of excessive or exorbitant prices. 

lavish

adj
  • Superabundant; excessive. 

  • Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal. 

verb
  • To give out extremely generously; to squander. 

  • To give out to (somebody) extremely generously. 

How often have the words highway robbery and lavish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )