The average taxpayer has to pick up the pieces by working harder and cutting back on our spending. Just to pay back means to give money back it's similar to pay off alone when you pay all of the money back but you pay back money every month so it just means to give some money back when you have borrowed it yeah okay obviously to lend money and to borrow money are really key terms and they're ones that I hear students getting wrong all the timeSo there are also various common idioms and expressions that people use when they're talking about money There are so many of them out there but I'm just going to talk about six expressions that you hear people talking about here's the first one