pay for

pay for
{v.} To have trouble because of (something you did wrong or did not do); be punished or suffer because of. * /When Bob could not get a good job, he realized he had to pay for all the years of fooling around instead of working in school./ * /Mary was very mean to John because she wanted to make him pay for all the years in which he had ignored her./ Compare: MAKE UP(3b), PAY OFF.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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