pay the piper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To pay expenses for something, and thus be in a position to be in control.

   “Those that pay the piper must command the tune.”

2. fiil To pay a monetary or other debt or experience unfavorable consequences, especially when the payment or consequences are inevitable or a result of something one has enjoyed.

   “[T]he very constitution of society is based upon this volunteer system of paying the piper. Honest men pay the piper for rogues, and full purses for empty ones.”