pay the freight
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pay the freight (third-person singular simple present pays the freight, present participle paying the freight, simple past and past participle paid the freight)
- To pay for the cost of transport.
- (idiomatic) To bear the cost.
- 1990, J. A. Jance, Minor in Possession, page 168
- I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars.
- 1997, J. A. Jance Name Withheld, page 58
- Stores that were large enough to pay the freight hired their own in-house detectives and security, but lots of companies were far too small to handle that kind of expense on a full-time basis.
- 2000, G. M. Ford, Last Ditch, page 62
- McColl was the lawyer of choice for those who could pay the freight.
- 1990, J. A. Jance, Minor in Possession, page 168