单词 | to fork out, over, or up |
释义 | > as lemmasto fork out, over, or up a. to fork out, over, or up: to give up, hand over, pay. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay up or out to pay out1438 to pay over1668 to shell down1801 pony1819 tip1829 to fork out, over, or up1831 to stump up1833 to put up1838 stump1841 pungle1851 to ante up1880 cough1894 to peg out1895 brass1898 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son xxxvi Fork out something better than this. 1839 Observer & Reporter May 18 The gambler should fork over his illgotten gains. 1843 Punch 5 86/2 ‘Oblige me with that hod’, and ‘Have the kindness to hand me that gimlet’, are phrases which might be well substituted for a request to ‘chuck’ or ‘fork up’ ‘this here’ and ‘that 'ere’. 1849 D. Nason Jrnl. 113 As he was the biggest man I had to fork over $1·25. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 3 Fork out your balance in hand. 1866 J. C. Gregg Life in Army xv. 132 Every person..forks over his picayune. 1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 601 So the governor forked this up, though it's my selection entirely. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 486/1 He forked over the money. 1918 E. Pound in Lett. J. Joyce (1966) II. 424 I will fork up the remaining £20 of the fifty promised. 1932 H. Crane Let. Jan. (1965) 395 The family will just have to fork up a loan or something for me. < as lemmas |
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