for your pains

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   as payment, reward or thanks for sth you have done

   Tell the young man she will read it tomorrow and here's for your pains

   I thank you for your pains.

In the movies · 3

• Fair Beatrice! I thank you for your pains.Much Ado About Nothing1993
• Tell the young man she will read it tomorrow and here's for your painsLes Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• I thank you for your pains.Twelfth Night2012
• Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend have by your wisdom been this day acquitted of most grievous penalties, in lieu whereof, three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew we freely pay your courteous pains withal.The Merchant of Venice2004

Learn it in full scenes

• Much Ado About Nothing1993
  • Beatrice and Benedick's Merry War
  • Beatrice and Benedick Trade Insults
  • Benedick Scorns Hero and Marriage
• Twelfth Night2012
  • Orsino's Speech on Music and Love
  • Viola Disguises Herself as a Man
  • Sir Andrew Boasts About Dancing

From the same entry

• be at pains to do
• take pains
• take pains with
• no pain, no gain
• on pain of
• a pain in the neck