| 单词 | to pitch and pay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pitch and pay ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay ready money to pitch and payc1450 to pay at the stub1532 c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) 1598 (MED) Shuld þay picche and paye at eche pleynte-is ende..Thay wolde cesse sum tyme for sheding of þaire siluer. a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 9 (MED) Yt ys full hard bothe to pyche and paye: An empty purs may evyll accomptes yelde. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Warwick xiv I vsed playnnes, euer pitch and pay. 1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 29v, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) At Norwich... A Citie trim: Where straungers well, may seeme to dwel, That pytch & pay, or kepe their day. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. iii. 46 Trust none: The word is pitch and pay. 1608 H. Clapham Errour Left Hand 102 But you your promise once did breake. Giue me your hand, that you will pitch and pay. 1849 Times 25 July 6/2 They [sc. refugees from Germany] describe Swiss hospitality as very expensive. ‘The word is pitch and pay.’ < as lemmas |
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