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pay the price

verb

Definitions

  1. To incur the negative consequences of (one’s own or someone else’s) actions or decisions.

    • Yet United may have paid the price for overconfidence as they completely lost their concentration after 10 minutes to let Wolves back in.
    • Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said ahead of the vote: "Northern communities are, once again, paying the price for broken Tory promises on rail.
    • "China will pay a price if it is seen as assisting Russia — either providing a direct assistance, particularly military assistance, or assisting Russia in evading sanctions," Chollet told VOA.

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