单词 | to pay sauce |
释义 | > as lemmasto pay sauce ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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