foot the bill

idiom

: to pay for something
His parents footed the bill for his college education.
It's a business lunch, so the company is footing the bill.

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The expense of operating prisons is a national crisis and tax payers are being asked to foot the bill. Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 Taxpayers to foot the bill Yee-Wallace peppered the defense with questions Monday about what funds would be used to pay the damages. Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025 Among Trump’s longstanding complaints is that Washington disproportionately foots the bill for European defense, a gripe that’s grown as the U.S. provided military support for Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024 The cost of shipping would have been astronomical, but the family of the high-status man to whom researchers believe the gravestone belongs likely had the funds to foot the bill. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for foot the bill 

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“Foot the bill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foot%20the%20bill. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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