pay home

English

Verb

pay home (third-person singular simple present pays home, present participle paying home, simple past and past participle paid home)

1. To strike to the quick; to retaliate.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Paulina. What (Soueraigne Sir)
     I did not well, I meant well: all my Seruices
     You haue pay'd home.