pay one's own freight
verbDefinitions
Synonym of pay one's own way.
- If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.
- I missed a real job's stimulation and rested uneasy in depending upon the Royal Family. (A sound presentiment, there.) I had been on my own since the age of eighteen, and I liked how it felt to pay my own freight.
- “I have absolutely no interest in being a wealthy dilettante. I have a job. I pay my own freight. […]
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