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Cost-of-living crisis (n.) is a period when prices for essentials like food, energy and rent rise faster than people's incomes.
The Oxford English Dictionary's first record of the phrase "cost of living" dates to 1796.
"Warm banks", public spaces for people who cannot heat their homes, made Collins's 2022 word-of-the-year shortlist.
Britain's energy regulator Ofgem raised the household energy price cap by 54% on April 1, 2022.
Cost-of-living crisis (n.) is shopping by subtraction.
Cost-of-living crisis (n.) is a price rise so steady it stops being news and becomes weather.
Cost-of-living crisis (n.) is getting poorer without anyone cutting your pay.
Cost-of-living crisis (n.) is when "treat yourself" means the brand-name beans.
Cost-of-living crisis (n.) is filling the kettle for exactly one mug.
Cost-of-living crisis (n.) is choosing between heating the house and eating in it.