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pays the price

pays the price is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pays the price

What is pays the price the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pays the price is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the price.

Words near pays the price in the dictionary

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

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