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you pays your money and you takes your choice en · X

Meanings

  1. Everyone can make their own individual decisions.
    • You can get there by bus, or train, or taxi. Whatever. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
    • Showman. On your right you will perceive a Prime Minister a Bolishing of hisself. And over your left is another Prime Minister a Bolishing of the Corn-Laws. / Master John Bull. But which is the Prime Minister? / Showman. Which ever you please, my little dear. You pays your money, and you takes your choice. 1846, “THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.[cartoon]”, in Punch, page 17:

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you pays your money and you takes your chances · you get what you pay for · to each his own