cash on the line
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Cash on the line had to be paid for them cattle."
- "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!"
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."