Wiktionary
vb. 1 To pay for the cost of transport. 2 (context idiomatic English) To bear the cost.
Usage examples of "pay the freight".
It was an insult I found hard to accept, but even I follow orders from those who pay the freight, if you know what I mean.
Let the shop at the destination pay the freight for bringing in the paper and ink.
Nelson therefore required, as the only means for carrying on that service, which was judged essential to the common cause, without exposing the officers to ruin, that the British envoy should appoint agents to pay the freight, release the vessels, sell the cargo, and hold the amount till process was had upon it: government thus securing its officers.
But how are the people going to pay the freight on these quite unnecessary luxuries—.
Valerena failed to appreciate a genius that got others to pay the freight and set them up to take the fall.
The scavengers were shouting, given over completely to the destruction of objects they could never afford before and could not pay the freight on now.