Vous vous payez de mots = You are the dupe of words; You are taken in by empty words.
Il me la payera = I will make him smart for it.
Qui paye ses dettes s’enrichit = Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Payer son écot = To pay one’s share (scot).
Il veut se payer ma tête = He wishes to have the laugh of me.
Pays
*Pays ruiné vaut mieux que pays perdu = Half a loaf is better than no bread.
Je lui ferai voir du pays = I will lead him a pretty dance.
*Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué = Do not count your chickens before they are hatched; First catch your hare.