| 单词 | to come down with the money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.) 11. intransitive. colloquial. To provide or hand over money; to ‘fork up’. More fully to come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.). Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > lay down money to show water1632 to post the cole1781 to come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.)1836 to lay (or put) it on the line1929 ?1688 New Ballad: Triumph of Justice (single sheet) Till Preachers and Pleaders came down with their Guinies, Which I pocketed up. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 34 What Pension does your Lady propose?..she must come down pretty deep now, she's super-annuated. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera iii. i. 39 Did he tip handsomely? How much did he come down with? 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. i. ii. 10 I'll make them come down, and handsomely too, or they shall repent it. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 10 When you come down with your pence, For a slice of their scurvy religion. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. x. 227 Money, you know, coming down with money—..it cannot be a very agreeable operation. View more context for this quotation 1836 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) IV. 381 The popular phrase of coming down with ‘the dust’. 1878 Scribners Mag. 15 288/2 But even rich fathers aren't willing Always to come down with the pelf. 1902 Month Oct. 540 They would like to know if the general public..will come down with the needful cash. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy (1976) iii. 52 He has an old aunt, he says, who comes down handsome at need. < as lemmas |
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