Cough up

"Cough up" in a Sentence (9 examples)

He was coughing up blood.

He was coughing up a lung. [idiomatic, figurative]

Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday?

"[…] Usually businessmen. Married, middle-aged guys who'll cough up fifty bucks to smoke my pole."

I have mentioned before how impressed I was when I used a Glasgow suburban train late one Saturday night, when I reached Queen Street the barriers were closed and I had to cough up a princely couple of quid before being allowed through.

"Anyhow, you go and cough it up and then we shall see."

Cough it up, Cooper.

That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.

England had never before come back to win from a margin of more than 12 points, and the errors continued to come thick and fast as Tom Croft became the latest to cough up the ball.

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