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fork over
Idioms and Phrases
Also, fork out or up . Hand over, pay up. For example, It's time you forked over what you owe , or He forked out a hundred for that meal , or Fork up or we'll sue . [ Slang ; early 1800s]Example Sentences
Mirshojae accused his wife of committing fraud to avoid paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars she had been ordered to fork over.
If the top movie categories are primarily populated by cinematic art that we should be supporting, this one is a lineup of what the masses are actually forking over their hard-earned money to see.
California calculates the amount that seniors like George must fork over by taking their monthly income and subtracting a fixed amount on which they are supposed to survive, called a “maintenance need income level.”
Unwitting people are forking over money via gift cards, cryptocurrency, credit cards, cash and wire transfers.
No one wants to spend their hard-earned money on a dud product, or fork over cash for a bad meal.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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