pay the freight
verbDefinitions
To pay for the cost of transport.
To bear the cost.
- I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars.
- 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.
- McColl was the lawyer of choice for those who could pay the freight.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA