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cash on the barrelhead



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Idioms and Phrases

Immediate payment, as in They won't extend credit; it's cash on the barrelhead or no sale . The lexicographer Charles Earle Funk surmised that this term originated in the days when upended barrels served as both seats and tables in bars, and customers were required to pay for their drinks immediately, literally putting their money on the top (head) of a barrel.
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Example Sentences

In his TV spots, he cuddled a puppy — again, not always the same puppy — and his ads promised that some of your cash on the barrelhead would go to save the lives of cutie pets like this one.

They aren’t looking for cash on the barrelhead but rather pledges, from businesses and individuals.

She paid for the whole thing cash on the barrelhead!

The venture did not instantly provide Washington with much ready capital — many of the transactions were not cash on the barrelhead but by barter or credit.

‘It doesn’t have to be this way’ There are more reasons than cash on the barrelhead for Time Warner, Comcast, Charter and others to love the cable box: it logs everything you do with your TV and makes that information available to the companies selling you your TV.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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