pay your dues
Definition
› to do something that you do not enjoy in order to have something that you want, or because you feel it is your dutyDuty, obligation and responsibility
(Definition of pay your dues from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- accountable adjective
- answer for sb/sth phrasal verb
- answer for sth phrasal verb
- answer to sb phrasal verb
- answerable adjective
- commitment noun
- fail noun 2
- fall to sb phrasal verb
- had better/best do sth idiom
- hat noun
- have sth on your hands idiom
- I am not my brother's keeper idiom
- ought modal verb (DUTY)
- owe sb a living idiom
- pass the buck idiom
- portfolio noun (JOB)
- preserve noun (ACTIVITY)
- purview noun
- remit noun
- shoulder noun (RESPONSIBILITY)
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