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To: Paladin2
Do we always have to pay you too, Mr. Piper

English please,, I have no idea what that means.......

11 posted on 07/15/2010 6:12:24 PM PDT by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper
"When the citizenry refuses to "pay the piper" for this service, he retaliates by turning his magic on their children, leading them away as he had the rats."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_the_piper

13 posted on 07/15/2010 6:16:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: MrPiper
'pay the piper'

-to accept the unpleasant results of something you have done; pay the price

After fooling around for most of the semester, now he has to pay the piper and study over vacation.

If you don't charge enough for your work, at some point you will have to pay the piper.

See also: pay, piper Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.

19 posted on 07/15/2010 6:20:46 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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