make pay

Temper doesn't pay—it is one of the things which nothing can ever make pay in this world.

They tax the large proprietors, whom they want to make pay the whole tax.

But Frenchy was gone, and he still owned half of a valuable piece of property and one that he could make pay well.

The labor I shall not mind; the sacrifices I shall make pay.

Their only source of income is the ranch, which they are too young and inexperienced to make pay.