pay one's way

[pay one's way] {v. phr.}

1. To pay in cash or labor for your expenses.

* /He paid his way by acting as a guide./

2. To be profitable; earn as much as you cost someone; be valuable to an employer; to yield a return above expenses.

* /The bigger truck paid its way from the start./

* /We had to offer our new manager a large salary, but he was a capable man, and paid his way./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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