单词 | foot the bill |
释义 | foot the billSEE SYNONYMS FOR foot the bill ON THESAURUS.COM Pay the bill, settle the accounts, as in The bride's father was resigned to footing the bill for the wedding. This expression uses foot in the sense of “add up and put the total at the foot, or bottom, of an account.” [Colloquial; early 1800s] Words nearby foot the billfootstep, footsteps editor, footstock, footstone, footstool, foot the bill, foot-ton, foot traffic, foot valve, footwall, foot warmer The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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