to pay someone
1pay someone a visit — pay (someone/something) a visit to go to see someone or something. Yesterday a police detective paid us a visit and asked a lot of questions. The three elderly women decided to pay a visit to a spa and had a great time. Related vocabulary: pay a… …
2pay someone a compliment — phrase to say something nice about someone or to someone Thesaurus: to praise someone or somethingsynonym Main entry: pay …
3pay someone back — pay (someone/something) back to return money that you have borrowed. I ll pay you back as soon as I get my next paycheck. I ll pay the money back on Friday. It will take years for him to pay back his student loans …
4pay (someone) back in (their) own coin — British & Australian, old fashioned to treat someone in the same bad way that they have treated you. I decided to pay her back in her own coin and refuse to help her …
5pay someone a visit — pay someone/something/a visit/call/ phrase to visit someone or something I think it’s time we paid the school a visit. Thesaurus: to visit a person or place, or to be visited by someone …
6pay someone a call — pay someone/something/a visit/call/ phrase to visit someone or something I think it’s time we paid the school a visit. Thesaurus: to visit a person or place, or to be visited by someone …
7pay someone back with interest — phrase to do something even worse to someone than they have done to you, in order to punish them Thesaurus: to treat someone in the same bad way they treat yousynonym Main entry: interest …
8pay someone in his — ● coin …
9pay someone back/out — GET ONE S REVENGE ON, be revenged on, avenge oneself on, get back at, get even with, settle accounts with, pay someone out, exact retribution on. → pay …
10pay someone back in his or her own coin — idi pay someone back in his or her own coin, to retaliate against someone by using the person s own methods …
