cross someone's palm with silver
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
44
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
Inflected Forms
crosses someone's palm with silver (present, singular)
crossing someone's palm with silver (participle, present)
crossed someone's palm with silver (participle, past)
crossed someone's palm with silver (past)