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Muzzle

To muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. Not to pay for work done; to expect other persons will work for nothing. The labourer is worthy of his hire, and to withhold that hire is to muzzle the ox that treadeth out your corn.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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