Can you be more specific than native English? I've never heard or read 'great cost' be anything other than large cost, it's the use of 'cost'. If you say 'a gre

Can you be more specific than native English? I've never heard or read 'great cost' be anything other than large cost, it's the use of 'cost'. If you say 'a great price', sure, but 'cost' is already implying something negative I suppose. (Native BrE, SW UK.)