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Pay back   /peɪ bæk/   Listen
Pay back

verb
1.
Act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions.  Synonyms: repay, reward.
2.
Take vengeance on or get even.  Synonyms: fix, get, pay off.  "That'll fix him good!" , "This time I got him"






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"Pay back" Quotes from Famous Books



... doing it, so as to release me of this burden, and so that the relatives of Pope Julius, with this repayment, may have the work done to their satisfaction by any one they like. Thus his Holiness our Lord could please me very greatly. Still, I wish to pay back as little as possible in reason. Making them listen to some of my arguments, such as the time spent for the Pope at Bologna, and other time lost without any payment, as Ser Giovanni Francesco, whom I have informed of everything, knows. As soon as I know clearly what I ...
— Michael Angelo Buonarroti • Charles Holroyd

... money he had made away with, and I could bear the loss. He was so thoroughly and truly repentant that I did not regret it. I made arrangements for him to go and start life afresh out there on a farm. It is his determination to pay back gradually as he can all he owes; but this would be the work of a lifetime. It was through gambling that he ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre

... Ares, the stubborn god of war. Bethink thee of all thy soldiership: now behoveth it thee to quit thee as a good spearman and valiant man of war. No longer is there way of escape for thee, but Pallas Athene will straightway subdue thee to my spear; and now in one hour shalt thou pay back for all my sorrows for my friends whom thou hast slain in ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)

... gave in St. John's Wood was itself distinction. Vera had never forgotten and never would forget what Anthony and Frances had done for her and Ferdie when they took Veronica. She wanted to make up, to pay back, to help their children as they had helped her child; to give the best she had, and do what they, poor darlings, couldn't possibly have done. Nicholas was all right; but Michael's case was lamentable. In his family and in the dull round of their acquaintance there was not anybody who ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... to out of his desk while I was waiting"—and she touched the bosom of her dress to make sure that they were safe—"may tell me a thing or two, though likely enough they are only unpaid bills. Ah! most noble cheat and captain, before you have done with her you may find that Black Meg knows how to pay back hot ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard


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