foot the bill en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic) To pay for something.
The cop tried the door. “It's locked, hey,” he said. “Bust it down,” roared Oedipa, “and Hitler Hilarius here will foot the bill.”
1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 103:When I spoke to Hitachi, it was very open that it will foot the bill, not taxpayers or farepayers.
2022 April 20, Philip Haigh, “What caused the cracks in Hitachi's Class 800 trains...”, in RAIL, number 955, page 53:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| footing the bill | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| footed the bill | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| footed the bill | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| foots the bill | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
fi maksaa lasku (pay for something) · cmn 付賬 /付账 (pay for something)