pay heed
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]pay heed (third-person singular simple present pays heed, present participle paying heed, simple past and past participle paid heed)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To give attention; to heed.
- Synonyms: give heed, take heed, pay attention
- Antonym: pay no mind
- You needn't pay heed to his antics.
- 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “w:Hassan of Basra. [Night 789.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VIII, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 44:
- Now an thou wouldst get possession of this queen and wed this jewel seld-seen and enjoy her beauty and loveliness and grace, do thou pay heed to my words and keep them in thy memory.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used with to when an object follows.