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Galway Mercury, and Connaught Weekly Advertiser choose

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[Ire] Galway Mercury 18 June 2/4: Under such a system as this, surely the rate-payers are ‘paying too much for the whistle’.
at pay (too much) for one’s whistle (v.) under pay, v.
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