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- Foot_the_bill abstract "The idiom foot the bill means:1. to pay all the costs for something (We ended up having to foot the bill for a new roof because our insurance didn't cover storm damage.) The Free Dictionary2. to pay money owed; to pay for something (Who's going to foot the bill for all the repairs?) (often + for) The Free Dictionary3. pay the bill, settle the accounts, as in The bride's father was resigned to footing the bill for the wedding. This expression uses foot in the sense of \"add up and put the total at the foot, or bottom, of an account.\" [Colloquial; early 19th century] AnswersRegarding its provenience and current usage, according to Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words [1] website:It comes from the mildly figurative sense of foot that refers to the end or bottom of something, such as the foot of a ladder...our sense refers in particular to the totting up of a column of figures, especially in an account ledger, and adding the result to the bottom of the column.It often now has the implication of paying for something whose cost is considered large or unreasonable, especially if the person doing so has been forced into paying for the consequences of the actions of somebody else.This modern-day usage is often how it is found in many articles and other current works, although many continue to use it with its more broad definition of simply to pay the costs or money owed for something, holding true its accounting origins.Michael Quinion further states that the phrase was......often used in the set phrase foot up (to), meaning to count...“The united debts of the colony foot up something like £50,000”...“The two counted the pile and found it footed up to two hundred and forty dollars.” Our sense of settling one’s account was acquired...because adding up the items on an account was something that would commonly be done at the point when one was paying one’s bill.To start with, it was a decidedly colloquial usage, but as time passed the associated senses fell out of use and to foot the bill is now a fixed phrase, though still somewhat informal. (Emphasis added)As time goes by, often sayings fall out of favor (foot up (to)) while some continue on (foot the bill), despite ambiguous origins.".
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- Foot_the_bill comment "The idiom foot the bill means:1. to pay all the costs for something (We ended up having to foot the bill for a new roof because our insurance didn't cover storm damage.) The Free Dictionary2. to pay money owed; to pay for something (Who's going to foot the bill for all the repairs?) (often + for) The Free Dictionary3. pay the bill, settle the accounts, as in The bride's father was resigned to footing the bill for the wedding.".
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