pay the price (English, verb)
expansion: pay the price (third-person singular simple present pays the price, present participle paying the price, simple past and past participle paid the price)
Senses:
glosses: To incur the negative consequences of (one’s own or someone else’s) actions or decisions.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: pays the price
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paying the price
tags: participle
present
form: paid the price
tags: participle
past
form: paid the price
tags: past
form: pay the penalty
tags: alternative