Sentence examples for pretended to pay from inspiring English sources

A famous joke from the Soviet era holds that under that system, the people pretended to work and the government pretended to pay them.

In November 2007 it could meet only 87% of its peak demand, and that demand is projected to double, more or less, in the next ten years.By tradition, Indians have pretended to pay for their electricity and the utilities have pretended to supply it.

I told him that would be fine, as long as he didn't mind if I pretended to pay him.

Since almost all Chicago Public Schools were still in session when the verdict came in early Friday afternoon, students described similar scenes: Clamoring around a cell phone to watch the live stream as the verdict was read, or surreptitiously sneaking glances at their phones or Twitter feeds while they and their peers pretended to pay attention in class.

As the Cuban saying goes: "Fidel pretends to pay us and we pretend to work".

"They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work," goes the old joke.

There, the joke was "we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us".

THE Czechs have a motto left over from Communist times: "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work".

Many Cubans say they are hesitant to let go of a reliable system summed up by a common joke: "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us".

Alexander Hamilton, statesman (1755 1804), The Federalist Papers (1787 88)"We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us!" Soviet-era joke"Senior management's job is to pay people.

Always better to avoid talking prices, but so many of us (especially me) pretend to pay less for things than we really do.