'go pay (someone) a visit' is how detectives and gangsters talk in crime novels. It means to go and talk to someone about a matter. This might be to ask questions, and/or to give them a warning by threatening them in some way; or just to beat them up.
Similarly, police might 'go pay (someone) a visit', meaning, go to ask a witness, or a criminal, questions about a crime.
It is not to do with paying the doctor FOR his services.
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So, 'go pay (someone) a visit' is not a particular grammar structure.
Isn't it?
Gervais
'go pay (someone) a visit' is how detectives and gangsters talk in crime novels. It means to go and talk to someone about a matter. This might be to ask questions, and/or to give them a warning by threatening them in some way; or just to beat them up.
Similarly, police might 'go pay (someone) a visit', meaning, go to ask a witness, or a criminal, questions about a crime.
It is not to do with paying the doctor FOR his services.
I should add that, though it started out the way I said, today its meaning has 'softened', so in your sentence, it is just an informal way of saying "I think you should talk to/see/consult a doctor (about that cough)"
I'd say that this has nothing to do with paying money to the doctor for a visit; rather, it is just a typical way in AmE of saying "We should go and pay the doctor a visit", where the coordinator "and" has been omitted in typical AmE style!
I'd say that this has nothing to do with paying money to the doctor for a visit; rather, it is just a typical way in AmE of saying "We should go and pay the doctor a visit", where the coordinator "and" has been omitted in typical AmE style!