pick up the bill
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“If you are letting your friends pick up the bill, do not pick an expensive restaurant,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Objecting to the proposal, Emma Reynolds said in June that she did not want a scenario where Thames Water customers had to "pick up the bill for the company's failures".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark are pitching in to help pick up the bill for Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
The order suspended the VA’s extensive procurement requirements and ordered the agency to pick up the bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2024
She stooped to pick up the bill from the floor as the brougham swung sharply round a corner.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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