pay one's dues

You try to pay your dues and do what's right.

Like I said last night, we may be beginning to pay our dues.

She needs to pay her dues in country music first.

But make them pay their dues and there would be no problem.

He has paid his dues and been around for years.

By then both have already paid their dues in the music industry.

I don't want to make a big deal about it, but you have to pay your dues.

But now the 20,000 man army had to be paid their full dues.

After age 60, members are no longer required to pay dues.

They had paid their dues, but today that didn't seem to matter.