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Jacket I am beginning to embellish to get better rate of pay (6,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

double time

'better rate of pay' is the definition.
(double the normal rate of pay)

'jacket i am beginning to embellish' is the wordplay.
'jacket' becomes 'doublet' (doublet is a kind of jacket).
'i am' becomes 'im'.
'beginning to' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'embellish' is 'e'.
'doublet'+'im'+'e'='DOUBLE TIME'

'to get' is the link.

(Another definition for double time that I've seen is " Two beats to the bar".)

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