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sing for your supper

old-fashioned

Definition

to do something for someone else in order to receive something in return, especially food: Dan's upstairs fixing my computer - I'm making him sing for his supper.Replacing and exchanging
(Definition of sing for your supper from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)