Suffer damage to the pocket! (4,3,4)
I believe the answer is:
bear the cost
'pocket' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'suffer damage to the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'suffer' could be 'bear' (synonyms) and 'bear' is located in the answer.
'damage' could be 'cost' ('damage' can informally mean a price or cost) and 'cost' is present in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'he' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for bear the cost that I've seen is " Fund".)