pay your money and take your choice

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.

Example Sentences

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

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You pay your money and take your choice.

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His intellect is appealed to by the plausible argument that we live in a busy time, in which the leaders of men simply cannot afford to waste their valuable hours by going to the tailor: at the ready-to-wear emporium you simply pay your money and take your choice.

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So pay your money and take your choice.

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"Pay your money and take your choice."

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