Canada is still a big UN paymaster.
His tone is that America is numero uno, the UN's chief paymaster, and so must be obeyed.
What time must it be when the escaped hungry Wolf ate the paymaster?
Fully 20 years after reunification, Germany is asserting its interests as the union's chief paymaster, and no longer feels the need to please.
The parchment crinkled crisply as he slid it toward the paymaster.
The good paymaster is lord of another mans purse.