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you get what you pay for

you get what you pay for proverb: in commercial transactions, the prices increase, as the quality of goods and services increases, i.e., the more one pays, the higher-quality the merchandise.

Proverb

you get what you pay for

  1. (informal) In commercial transactions, the prices increase, as the quality of goods and services increases, i.e., the more one pays, the higher-quality the merchandise.
    • You get what you pay for. If you want a lower price, you can go to Motel 6..1991 October 28, Janice Castro, Richard Woodbury, “The Man Who Fired a Dog To Save a Buck”, in Time, retrieved 04 Nov 2018
    Synonyms:
    YGWYPF

you get what you pay for meaning in Vietnamese

you get what you pay for in Vietnamese

quality of goods increases as the prices increases
tiền nào của nấy, tiền nào của đó, tiền nào của đấy, tiền nào của ấy

Synonyms of you get what you pay for

Questions about you get what you pay for

What does you get what you pay for mean?
You get what you pay for means in commercial transactions, the prices increase, as the quality of goods and services increases, i.e., the more one pays, the higher-quality the merchandise.
What is you get what you pay for in Vietnamese?
You get what you pay for in Vietnamese is tiền nào của nấy, tiền nào của đó, tiền nào của đấy. See You get what you pay for meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is you get what you pay for?
You get what you pay for is a proverb.

Words near you get what you pay for in the dictionary

  1. you don't say
  2. you don't want to know
  3. you gals
  4. you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
  5. you get that
  6. you get what you pay for
  7. you go, boy
  8. you go, girl
  9. you got a mouse in your pocket
  10. you got a mouse in your purse
  11. you got it

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