The French expression “payer avec un lance-pierre” translates literally to “to pay with a slingshot”.
English meaning:
- to pay peanuts
- to exploit (on wages)
French meaning:
- sous-payer – to underpay
Example sentence:
- Tout le monde veut travailler pour la station de ski mais le problème c’est qu’ils paient avec un lance-pierre. Everybody wants to work for the ski area the problem is that they pay peanuts.
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