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Pitch and Pay
Pitch down your money and pay at once. There is a suppressed
pun in the phrase: “to pay a ship” is to pitch it.
“The word is pitch and pay- next none”
Shakespeare: Henry V., ii.f.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Pitch and Pay from Infoplease:
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