交学费

交学费

Literally means:

to pay one's tuition

Actually means:

to pay price for one's mistake or failure

It literally means paying tuition to the school for one's education.

Figuratively it means paying a price for one's mistake or failure in carry out a task. This phrase sometimes connotes that one should not have made certain mistakes or failed. Thus it is sometimes used to satirize those who have made such mistakes or failed, and it is sometimes also used as a self-consolation or self-irony by the very people themselves.

在学校学习而付钱给学校。

比喻由于各种原因办事失误、失败所付出的代价。有时含有不应该造成失误或失败的意味，因此，有时用来讽刺造成失误或失败的有关单位或个人，有时被有关单位或个人用来进行自我安慰或自我解嘲。