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It's actually a fairly common idiom in English, dating prior to Shakespeare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_of_Flesh



totally unnecessary explanation, don't know what in my comment led you to think I needed it. Do you regularly define words and etymology for people in comments?




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