Noun
average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing)
Source: WordNetThe cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. Flip Wilson
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. W. C. Fields
Wages have increased, the cost of living has decreased. The job of every man and woman has been made more secure. We have in this short period decreased the fear of poverty, the fear of unemployment, the fear of old age; and these fears that are the greatest calamities of human kind. Herbert Hoover
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. Newt Gingrich
How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart? W. C. Fields
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high. Doug Larson