Sentence examples for pretends to pay from inspiring English sources

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

One of the creepiest scenes of all for me is when his little girl, all dressed and made up, does a slightly embarrassing dance routine for him, and he pretends to pay attention but is clearly distracted by the thought of his next killing, which isn't far off.

"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.

You're supposed to be maximally crazy, but you're supposed to pretend to pay attention to the referee who is, sort of, there to enforce fair play.

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 the meantime, I'd gladly pretend to work 20 hours a day if only I could find somebody in this economy who'd pretend to pay me.