cross someone's palm with silver
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[edit]cross someone's palm with silver (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's palm with silver, present participle crossing someone's palm with silver, simple past and past participle crossed someone's palm with silver)
- Alternative form of cross someone's palm
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- 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.