pay (your) way

if someone pays their way, they pay for all the things they have or use.

We've always paid our own way and never taken a penny from the state.

• on the starting blocks
• on the strength of
• on the strength of something
• on the stump
• on the table
• on the threshold of
• on the threshold of something
• on the tip of tongue
• on the tip of your tongue
• on the town
• on the trot
• on the verge of
• on the verge of doing something
• on the wagon
• on the warpath
• on the way
• on the whole
• on the wing
• on the wrong side of the law
• on the wrong track
• on thin ice
• on time
• on tod
• on toes
• on top of