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单词 to pay sauce
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to pay sauce
P7. to pay sauce: to pay a very high price. to cost sauce: to be very costly. Obsolete.Used in both literal and figurative contexts.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay dearly or excessively
to pay sauce1659
to pay size1662
to pay through the nose1666
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [verb (transitive)] > cost (one) high price
standc1390
to cost one (dear) in the setting on1594
to pay sauce1659
1659 J. Evelyn Char. Eng. 63 The forbidden fruites are certaine trifling Tartes, Neates-tongues, Salacious meates, and bad Rhenish; for which the Gallants pay Sauce.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 107 in Trav. Persia All the Court..believ'd 'twould cost his ambition sauce; as indeed it fell out.
1718 P. Motteux Don Quixote (1733) II. 116 The Innkeeper..swore..that they should pay him Sauce for the Damage.
1814 Agric. Mag. Apr. 252 I know well enough it costs me sauce to keep rats and mice, but God forbid I should know how much, for if I did I should go crazy.
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