A: Have you decided which school to send your son to next year? B: Not yet. There is a public school near my home, but perhaps I will cough up extra money to send him to a private one. Note: Literally the idiom means “to get something out of the body by coughing.” It can also mean “to confess.” As a slang term, it also means “to produce or present something, such as an amount of money.” For example: It’s time that the delinquent members cough up their dues. |