Payman and Sons

Pay man and sons or make pay man is an idiomatic expression that colloquially and jokingly expresses that a person has to pay a lot of money without wanting to. Usually she does not get anything in return that is in an acceptable proportion to the amount paid.

The first variant of the idiom is formed according to the common scheme "company name & sons" for company names.

Examples

• "He had no liability insurance and after the accident it was called 'pay man and sons'."
• "Anyone who does door-to-door sales easily becomes 'Zahlemann and Sons'."
• "The judge imposed a fine , which means, for the delinquent, 'pay man and sons'."

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• Uni Leipzig vocabulary list: Input: "Zahlemann"
• Duden 11, from 1992, page 824