Customer: Can you guarantee that this washing machine won't break? Salesman: No guarantees. You pays your money and you takes your chances.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
you pays your money and you takes your chance — you pays your money and you takes your chance/choice/informal phrase used for saying that you must be willing to accept that something may not be as good as you expected it to be Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing how good or bad something issynonym… … Useful english dictionary
you pays your money and you takes your choice — you pays your money and you takes your chance/choice/informal phrase used for saying that you must be willing to accept that something may not be as good as you expected it to be Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing how good or bad something issynonym… … Useful english dictionary
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