pay the piper and call the tune

To be able to dictate how some situation proceeds because one has funded it. You're buying us all dinner? In that case, you can pick where we go. Pay the piper and call the tune, as they say!

See also: and, call, pay, piper, tune

See also:

call (all) the shots
call all the shots
call the
call the shots
call the shots/the tune
call the tune
Who calls the shots?
a ragged colt may make a good horse
colt
ragged

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