"pay one's own freight" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pay<,,paid> one's own freight"
      },
      "expansion": "pay one's own freight (third-person singular simple present pays one's own freight, present participle paying one's own freight, simple past and past participle paid one's own freight)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos, volume 38, page 151",
          "text": "If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Jeff Coplon, My Story, page 162",
          "text": "I missed a real job's stimulation and rested uneasy in depending upon the Royal Family. (A sound presentiment, there.) I had been on my own since the age of eighteen, and I liked how it felt to pay my own freight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Cherry Adair, Relentless",
          "text": "“I have absolutely no interest in being a wealthy dilettante. I have a job. I pay my own freight. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay for oneself, not relying on the generosity of others."
      ],
      "id": "en-pay_one's_own_freight-en-verb-JyuRcgBe",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, dated) To pay for oneself, not relying on the generosity of others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay one's own freight"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid one's own freight",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pay<,,paid> one's own freight"
      },
      "expansion": "pay one's own freight (third-person singular simple present pays one's own freight, present participle paying one's own freight, simple past and past participle paid one's own freight)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English colloquialisms",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos, volume 38, page 151",
          "text": "If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Jeff Coplon, My Story, page 162",
          "text": "I missed a real job's stimulation and rested uneasy in depending upon the Royal Family. (A sound presentiment, there.) I had been on my own since the age of eighteen, and I liked how it felt to pay my own freight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Cherry Adair, Relentless",
          "text": "“I have absolutely no interest in being a wealthy dilettante. I have a job. I pay my own freight. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay for oneself, not relying on the generosity of others."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, dated) To pay for oneself, not relying on the generosity of others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay one's own freight"
}