In the end it's still ordinary people who pay the price for bad decisions.
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Originally Cantonese 埋單 (maai⁴ daan¹, 'settle the bill') - the Mandarin 买单 is a phonetic reborrowing that became universal after the 1990s reform era. The figurative '为... 买单' ('pay for someone's mistake') is now just as common as the literal sense.
