in the pay of somebody

writtenWORK FOR somebody someone who is in someone else’s pay is working for them, often secretly 〔多指秘密地〕受雇于某人的

an informer in the pay of the police

一名警方雇用的线人

Examples from the Corpus

in the pay of somebody• Look, a lot of the police are in the pay of the big villains.• Himself is right: half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob.• The study will analyse difference in the pay of individuals in the public and private sectors of the economy.• I am not in the pay of any man, Mr Advocate.• If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.• Police and prosecutors, especially those in the pay of rival cartels, have been a special Arellano target.• Several cops were in the pay of Colombian drug lords.• This was the main reason the Pharisees hated the tax-collectors: they were in the pay of the Romans.

→ in the pay of somebody at pay2(1)

单词	in the pay of somebody
释义	in the pay of somebody in the pay of somebody writtenWORK FOR somebody someone who is in someone else’s pay is working for them, often secretly 〔多指秘密地〕受雇于某人的 an informer in the pay of the police 一名警方雇用的线人 Examples from the Corpus in the pay of somebody• Look, a lot of the police are in the pay of the big villains.• Himself is right: half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob.• The study will analyse difference in the pay of individuals in the public and private sectors of the economy.• I am not in the pay of any man, Mr Advocate.• If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.• Police and prosecutors, especially those in the pay of rival cartels, have been a special Arellano target.• Several cops were in the pay of Colombian drug lords.• This was the main reason the Pharisees hated the tax-collectors: they were in the pay of the Romans. → in the pay of somebody at pay2(1)
随便看	direct tax directtax direct taxation direct-taxation directtaxation direct taxes direct to consumer direct-to-consumer dire forecast direly direness dire prediction dire-straits Dire Straits direstraits dire warning dire warning/prediction/forecast dirge dirgeful dirgelike dirges dirigible dirigibles dirk dirks