Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Pay in
Both terms in one sentence
- Practically all of them end with the mission going FUBAR and him being the only one to make it out, getting to keep his dead comrades' pay in the process.
Source: Sole Survivor -
Eagleland: "Us" is half a deconstruction of Type 1 and half about the Soviet Union, with lines such as "And though are parts are slightly used, new ones are slave labor you can keep", referring to the price immigrants' children pay in regards to suffered stigmas all for the American dream.
Source: Music / Soviet Kitsch
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