pay your money and take your choice

Idioms  

1. Also, you pays your money and takes your choice. Since you're paying, it's your decision, as in We can take the train or the bus—you pays your money and takes your choice. This term first appeared in the English humor magazine Punch in the mid-1800s and has been repeated ever since.

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Example Sentences

Have no problem with low price airlines, you pay your money and take your choice.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2012

You pay your money and take your choice.

From The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism by Foote, G. W. (George William)

So pay your money and take your choice.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by Latham, A. W.