noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
pay
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The man who pays the piper does his best to call the tune.
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At the end of the day, those who pay the piper must call the tune.
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The elbow room may feel good, but some one has to pay the piper for the cost of infrastructure.
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Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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But there is always the suspicion that those who pay the piper have the power to call the tune.
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He who pays the piper ... Such innovative schemes are not confined to the United States.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
he who pays the piper calls the tune
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Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
the Pied Piper (of Hamelin)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above the marble mantlepiece in Lennox Berkeley's study hangs and eighteenth-century mirror ornamented with gilded Pan pipers.
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And like a piper , Horton led the two little by little into the world of dance.
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Bagpipes are considered family heirlooms and the pipers provide their own.
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Banquet-goers were treated to a march past of pipers during the reception.
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But not a day goes by, since June, that the piper isn't paid.
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The man who pays the piper does his best to call the tune.
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The Sergeant was a very good piper and would have gone on all night.
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There are pipers here going up and down.