(colloquial) a variation of you pays your money and you takes your choice, what will happen is a matter of chance or luck, suggesting that when faced with a choice between two similar possibilities or alternatives, one might just as well rely on luck. The phrase comes from a rhyme used by English traders with market stalls:/"Whatever you please my little dears:/You pays your money and you takes your choice./You pays your money and what you sees is/A cow or a donkey just as you pleases." —State of ManCongress Approved Gls (14.5.92)