In this game it didn't really pay off".
But this clash of cultures doesn't really pay off: the Donovans are caricatures, and so are the Hollywood big shots.
None of them really pay off, apart from the Boots Advantage and Marks & Spencer cards, which have decent points systems.
And for this to really pay off for I.B.M., the ideas and techniques developed for one customer have to be useful for an entire industry or several industries.
It looks spectacular, there are several great performances, and the overly complicated set up could really pay off for those who invest their time in the show.
Those rehearsals really pay off, because when you're on the set you have a common understanding from which to proceed, and the actors can, from that point on, really take off.
Buying an individual stock is a wager on one company's unknowable future, and it can take decades of sustained investment in individual equities for your bets to really pay off, given that you're likely to have losers offsetting winners.
3.03am: I haven't been a huge fan of the flashbacks as they've been deployed throughout the series, but they really pay off now during this episode set entirely back in 1994.
It always takes a few years for a mood to become an aesthetic strategy — for instance, the disillusionment of the Vietnam period didn't really pay off artistically until you got to the end of the war, and it showed up in disguised form in such movies as "The Godfather" and "Chinatown" and some of Robert Altman's work.
Banks don't want to let borrowers who can really pay off the hook, to give others an incentive to default, or to recognise more losses.Bankruptcy laws could be changed to allow courts to reduce principal, much as they can for the debt of a company in Chapter 11.
Though the newspaper layout plunges us into the shock, anger and grief around Lincoln's assassination very effectively, the narrative also recounts the back story of Lincoln's life from childhood on, and so the concept does not really pay off again until we are in the Civil War.
