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单词 cough something up (or cough up)
释义

cough something up (or cough up)

informal Give something reluctantly, especially money or information that is due or required: the company coughed up $40 m. in settlement of the legal claims...
  • When your automated teller machines divide and arrange your money before coughing it up, they are all using partition theory.
  • The authorities intervened and forbade them from leaving till the amount was coughed up.
  • When they didn't have the ball, they strangled opponents into coughing it up.

Synonyms

pay, pay up, pay out;
come up with, hand over, part with, defray the cost of;
foot the bill, settle up
informal fork out, shell out, dish out, lay out, come across with
British informal stump up
North American informal make with, ante up, pony up
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