cross someone's palm with silver

A form of cross someone's palm — To pay for goods or a service.

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Meanings

verbcross someone's palm with silver (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's palm with silver, present participle crossing someone's palm with silver, simple past and past participle crossed someone's palm with silver)

present singular third person crosses someone's palm with silver · participle present crossing someone's palm with silver · participle past crossed someone's palm with silver · past crossed someone's palm with silver

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cross someone's palm.
    1 more example

    As we drove off I was inclined to ask myself, a little bitterly — and perhaps unjustly — if it were not characteristic of the average London policeman to almost forget the most important part of his information, — at any rate to leave it to the last and only to bring it to the front on having his palm crossed with silver.

    1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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