单词 | to cash in |
释义 | > as lemmasto cash in 2. to cash in extracted from cashv.2 a. To settle accounts in the game of poker; hence in general use, to clear accounts; to close up a matter. (Sometimes transitive with checks as object.) U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > settle accounts to cash in1884 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics see1804 to make good1821 call1840 bluff1846 straddle1864 fill1865 to cash in1884 stack1896 slow-play1967 slow-roll1996 1884 [see sense 2b]. 1896 G. Ade Artie v. 46 If you're struck on him I'll cash in right here and drop out of the game. 1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne xxi. 232 I lost back the $2,500 and cashed in. 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories xii. 224 By all the rules of the game, Peter should have failed long since, should have ‘cashed in and quit’ some five years back. b. figurative. To die. (Also without in.) Also with checks as object. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 1884 H. Dougherty Oratorical Stump Speaker 14 When Bob cashes in his checks and is toasted like a sirloin steak..on the top of Old Nick's pitchfork. 1888 Amer. Humorist 11 Aug. (F.) Till death calls upon you to cash in your earthly checks. 1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xix. 250 The Orphan not only saved me but also some of them, for I'd a gotten some of them before I cashed. 1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xx. 220 He's been follerin' me around steady since Wolf cashed in. 1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 July 88/2 Cashing in or shipping out, it made no difference as long as you didn't watch them die. 1966 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka's Domain vii. 75 Because of the size of the dead animal, at first I thought it to be buffalo. ‘Poor Bill or Phyl, cashed in?’ c. To ‘get in’ with; now usually, to make a profit on, (figurative) to take advantage of (an opportunity, etc.). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > take advantage to take (the) advantagea1591 to cash in1927 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories viii. 146 I don't stack very high in the blue chips when it comes to cashin' in with th' gentle sex. 1927 Daily Express 12 Sept. 11 An enterprising American company..‘cashed in’ on Mr. Arlen by acquiring the screen-rights of one of his earliest stories. 1928 Sunday Express 16 Dec. 4/3 She is appearing in too many films, even for a star who would be justified in ‘cashing in’ on her popularity while the popularity is good. 1930 Publishers' Weekly 1 Mar. 1040 Cash in on this tremendous wave of interest and enthusiasm! A large national advertising campaign will start the novel toward a big sale! 1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves ii. 26 With a thing like that to give you a send-off, why didn't you cash in immediately? 1935 Economist 8 June 1295/1 Japan's diplomats are now trying to ‘cash in on’ the opportunities which its soldiers have created. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. ix. 368 That rather unattractive journalist, Barnabe Rich, cashes in on the rising interest in military matters with a series of tracts. 1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 156/2 A possible autumn election, designed to cash in on what the Conservatives hope will be the flood tide of their popularity. 1966 Listener 2 June 794/2 Are not some of them..cashing in quite shamelessly on the current debased fascination with evil? d. transitive. To pay in to a bank; to earn, gain. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > bank [verb (transitive)] > pay into bank to pay in1623 to cash in1904 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make in profit winc1175 gain1530 advantage1557 lucre1570 superlucrate1652 cleara1719 realize1720 net1765 to clean up1831 mop1861 gross1884 to cash in1904 1904 ‘M. Twain’ $30,000 Bequest (1906) 10 I'm going to cash-in a whole three hundred on the missionaries. a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 229 With his gold dust cashed in to the merry air of a hundred thousand..the Man from Nome sighed to set foot again in Chilkoot. 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 21 I know your kind—hell-bent to spend what you cash in. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xvi. 278 If all these vouchers were cashed in at once, it would send up the cost per packet. < as lemmas |
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