| 词汇 | pay the fiddler |
| 词源 | pay the fiddler. This is an American expression that appar- ently arose in the early 19th century, based on the old English expression “to pay the piper,” which dates back to 1681: “Af- ter all this Dance he has led the Nation, he must at least come to pay the Piper himself ”—Thomas Flatman, Heraclitus ridens. |
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