10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAY THE PIPER AND CALL THE TUNE»
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pay the piper and call the tune in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pay the piper and call the tune and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs in
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... counting house to pay the piper and call the tune. (088, p. 416, 1905) Those
who pay the piper call the tune, unless the piper is a veritable Pied Piper whose
tune no one can resist. (210, p. 42, 1918) ... the value to me. . . of calling the tune
as ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 1994
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Cartoon-illustrated Metaphors: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches, ...
George Bernard Shaw wrote in Major Barbara (1905): "l am going to pay the
piper and call the tune." ln modern times, it could mean whoever bears the cost of
an enterprise should have authority over it. » Those dot-coms that assumed
banner ...
Pay the piper (and call the tune) Bear the cost of an undertaking (and control
what is to be done) He was prepared to pay the piper but insisted on calling the
tune. Pay for Suffer pain or punishment for If we are S Idioms and Phrases • 231.
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
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The Economics of Health Equity
9 Pay the piper and call the tune: changing health care financing mechanisms to
address public–private health sector mix inequities Di McIntyre Summary This
chapter considers health care financing in the African context, particularly the role
...
Di McIntyre, Gavin Mooney, 2007
Chastity, like skepticism, shouldn't be relinquished too readily, and that's what the
sampler tells us. Play with the recognizeability of texts and see what happens.
Pay the piper, and call the tune. Advertising is the modern substitute for argument
; ...
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Peter Lunenfeld, 2004
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The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
A decoy-dog ; ci f f.1 «W ig* f ftsi itw i Piper's news— 151 111 1 Drunk as a piper
— Hi *tst«i i To pay the piper (and call the tune) - To bear the expense (and have
the control of a proceeding etc.) ; 11? 1?«? f 11 ' Piper cubeba — f fttl fofr (cit!) ...
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A Dictionary of Cliches
*pay the piper (and call the tune), to . To pay the expenses (or the loss) incurred
and—for the longer phrase—say what is to be done: mid C. 18–20. Lit, to pay the
piper for his piping at a dance. pay up and look pleasant, to . To pay cheerfully: ...
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Churchill's Horses
and the Myths of American Corporations: ...
Management salaries are paid by the corporation, but it is the shareholders'
money that the corporation is spending. Therefore, it is the shareholders who pay
the piper and call the tune. The name of the tune (sung by the managers, of
course) ...
... the Parliament which wields the irresistible coercive forces of the bludgeon,
bayonet, machine gun, dynamite shell, prison, and scaffold, down to the pettiest
centre of shabbygenteel social pretension, the rich pay the piper and call the tune
.
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A Companion to Television
It is the advertisers who “pay the piper and call the tune.” And it follows from this
that the programs transmitted may reflect the objectives and priorities of
advertisers at least as much as the wishes of viewers. Although viewer
satisfaction may ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAY THE PIPER AND CALL THE TUNE»
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pay the piper and call the tune is used in the context of the following news items.
Are we an Oligarchy masquerading as a Democracy?
They are the real plutocrats who pay the piper and call the tune. Protectively nurtured in the licence-raj nursery they have now attained ... «Hill Post, Jun 15»
Pro-Israeli American Billionaires Helped by the White House “Make …
... men who write the checks do not see it that way and, unfortunately, they are the ones who all too often both pay the piper and call the tune. «Center for Research on Globalization, Aug 14»
What Brought Down the Petrostate Premier?
But every Albertan knows that oil and pipelines pay the piper and call the tune. When 30 per cent of a government's revenue stream comes ... «TheTyee.ca, Aug 14»
How Shaw viewed newspapers as tame servants of war-mongering …
I am going back to my counting house to pay the piper and call the tune. STEPHEN: Really, my dear father, it is impossible to be angry with you. «The Guardian, Sep 13»
UK rail reform poses 'big test' for operators
... management companies step in, so long as it was clear that they – the operators – are the ones who pay the piper and call the tune.”. «Financial Times, May 11»
