pick up the tab

pick up the tab {v. phr.}

To pay the bill in a restaurant; be the one who underwrites financially what others are doing.

"I am always the one who picks up the tab," Charlie complained bitterly. "Others get away with being freeloaders."

Compare: FOOT THE BILL.

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