But the line could turn out to be an expensive burden for both the city and transportation agency.

The expression white elephant refers to an expensive burden, particularly to a situation in which much has been invested with false expectations.

We were born, and had no choice in that matter; but we were burdens, expensive, never grateful enough.

The strike failed to achieve the workers' goals but is measured as one of Canada's most expensive economic burdens.

Choosing health care plans, negotiating rates and fighting claims add up to an expensive and irritating burden for most companies.

It also remains to be seen whether state governments that restrict welfare benefits create expensive new burdens that devour any savings.

He said the hospital had changed its view of ambulance services and emergency rooms, once seen as expensive burdens.

Millions of children, if neglected in their early years, will eventually be a heavy - and expensive - burden to society.

But it is the citizens of Greece who are bearing the expensive burden of their glorious heritage.

To them, a wife is the most disagreeable, expensive burden a man could ever want.