Aubrey Carter
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So to get off easy.
This is another get phrase, which there are millions of them in English, right?
Because let and get, they rhyme.
It's very awkward to say all those words in one sentence.
Yeah, let them off easy.
Pay the price would be the next phrase.
This is where we suffer negative consequences for an action or a decision, right?
It's true.
I know when something's gotten so much worse, right?
And then you finally go to the doctors.
Yeah.
If you cut corners now, you'll pay the price later.
And so many things are true.
Even with learning a language, if we're not building our foundation in the right way, we'll pay the price later.
We'll have real gaps in our skills.
Or they broke the rules and now must face the consequences.
Yes, good phrase.
And I like this next one.
Get what's coming to you.
And a related phrase that feels like it ties in with this is sometimes we say, oh, he had it coming.