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cash on the line

cash on the line noun: synonym of cash on the barrelhead.

Noun

cash on the line (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of cash on the barrelhead.
    • Everything here is cash on the line. You can pay in advance for your room if you like, or you can pay every morning to keep the room that night.2004, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Two-Bit Posse
    • Cash on the line had to be paid for them cattle.2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still
  2. Cash that is on hand for any expenses.
    • We'll need some decent equipment and plenty of cash on the line—if only for drugs and a super-sensitive tape recorder, for the sake of a permanent record.1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    • Many of us are, after all, writers manqué: we too were going to be men of letters once — novelists, columnists, editors — men whose words would change the world, men whose words would even mean cash on the line.1988, Wayne C. Booth, The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cash, on the line.

Examples of cash on the line in a sentence

  • On this lovely day, amid the song of birds and the aroma of coffee, let us take a holy oath not to sell these two crosses except for cash on the line!2013, Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk, page 114:
  • But one of the boys, who didn't believe in anything either, found it even more convenient to make blood money on you and sold you out to fat policemen—cash on the line.2014, Victor Serge, Birth of Our Power, page 36:

Synonyms of cash on the line

Questions about cash on the line

What does cash on the line mean?
Cash on the line means synonym of cash on the barrelhead.
How do you use cash on the line in a sentence?
On this lovely day, amid the song of birds and the aroma of coffee, let us take a holy oath not to sell these two crosses except for cash on the line!
What part of speech is cash on the line?
Cash on the line is a noun.

Words near cash on the line in the dictionary

  1. cash money
  2. cash on delivery
  3. cash on the barrel head
  4. cash on the barrel-head
  5. cash on the barrelhead
  6. cash on the line
  7. cash out
  8. cash point
  9. cash points
  10. cash poor
  11. cash position

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