pay one's own freight
English
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editpay one's own freight (third-person singular simple present pays one's own freight, present participle paying one's own freight, simple past and past participle paid one's own freight)
- (colloquial, dated) To pay for oneself, not relying on the generosity of others.
- 1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos, volume 38, page 151:
- If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.
- 1997, Jeff Coplon, My Story, page 162:
- I missed a real job's stimulation and rested uneasy in depending upon the Royal Family. (A sound presentiment, there.) I had been on my own since the age of eighteen, and I liked how it felt to pay my own freight.
- 2013, Cherry Adair, Relentless:
- “I have absolutely no interest in being a wealthy dilettante. I have a job. I pay my own freight. […]