foot the bill
Slang definitions & phrases for
foot the bill
foot the bill
verb phrase
To pay the charges;
pick up the tab
(1819+)
Idioms and Phrases with
foot the bill
foot the bill
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.”
[
; early 1800s
]