cold, hard cash

cold, hard cash

Dollar bills and coins, as opposed to checks or credit. The deal won't go through unless we pay him in cold, hard cash. You can put your checkbook away—we only take cold, hard cash here, buddy. Of course they want you to pay in cold, hard cash—they don't want to create a paper trail!
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cold, hard cash

cash, not checks or credit. I want to be paid in cold, hard cash, and I want to be paid now! Pay me now! Cash on the barrelhead—cold, hard cash.
See also: cash, hard
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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