Never heard the phrase used except to mean you had to pay for something (usually when you didn't expect to have to) and there is no hope of getting the money back from another source(s).
This seems to be another case of a phrase tickling the fancy of people then becoming popular, then being reconfigured to fit whatever the speaker wants. The speaker being delighted with him/her self and the left of us left grinding our teeth.
Ah, well!
Of course I've never done that. You do believe me don't you?