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cough up
verb
informalto surrender (money, information, etc), esp reluctantly
(tr) to bring into the mouth or eject (phlegm, food, etc) by coughing
Idioms and Phrases
Hand over or relinquish, especially money; pay up. For example, It's time the delinquent members coughed up their dues . [ Slang ; late 1800s]
Confess or divulge, as in Pretty soon she'd cough up the whole story about last night . This idiom transfers the act of vomiting to telling the entire truth. [ Slang ; late 1800s]
Example Sentences
With her second serve liable to cough up double faults, and her forehand identified as a weakness, there were debates whether the issues were down to her mentality or technical deficiencies.
The first minister met the prime minister last week in London, following disagreements between the pair and Morgan calling on the Sir Keir to "cough up for Wales".
Eluned Morgan had called on the prime minister to "cough up" extra funding for Wales ahead of meeting him on Friday.
Last week the Labour government coughed up a new proposal for tighter controls on legal immigration, which was of course denounced by Reform as not nearly enough.
"The Royal Family has been very efficient in persuading the public purse to keep coughing up more money," he says.
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