highway robbery vs posh

highway robbery

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

  • Said of excessive or exorbitant prices. 

posh

noun
  • slush 

  • fragments produced by an impact 

adj
  • Associated with the upper classes. 

  • Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive). 

  • Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else. 

verb
  • To make posh, or posher. 

intj
  • An exclamation expressing derision. 

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