sing for your supper
old-fashionedto do something for someone else in order to receive something in return, especially food:
Dan's upstairs fixing my computer - I'm making him sing for his supper.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargain sth away
- change over
- change places idiom
- fill
- name
- part exchange
- pinch-hit
- pre-empt
- proxy
- rep
- represent
- reserve
- sit
- succeed
- succession
- supersede
- supplant
- swap
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