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paid the price

paid the price is the simple past and past participle of pay the price.

Meaning of pay the price

Verb

pay the price (third-person singular simple present pays the price, present participle paying the price, simple past and past participle paid the price)

  1. (idiomatic) To incur the negative consequences of (one’s own or someone else’s) actions or decisions.
    • Yet United may have paid the price for overconfidence as they completely lost their concentration after 10 minutes to let Wolves back in.2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC

Questions about paid the price

What is paid the price the simple past and past participle of?
Paid the price is the simple past and past participle of pay the price.

Words near paid the price in the dictionary

  1. paid the bills
  2. paid the fiddler
  3. paid the freight
  4. paid the penalty
  5. paid the piper
  6. paid the price
  7. paid the rent
  8. paid the ultimate price
  9. paid through the nose
  10. paid to play
  11. paid towards

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