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Idioms and Phrases

Also, fork out or up . Hand over, pay up. For example, It's time you forked over what you owe , or He forked out a hundred for that meal , or Fork up or we'll sue . [ Slang ; early 1800s]
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Example Sentences

For an article in the Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, the author must fork over $650 for “handling.”

In order to avoid prison time, Malory agrees to fork over ISIS and cease all ISIS operations.

Then, he runs into a few gang members who force him to fork over his briefcase.

BP has committed to providing $15 million for improvements to oyster grounds, but has yet to fork over the money.

We sued each other before he eventually agreed to fork over $200,000 to cover various out-of-pocket vendors.

I've seen secret service men, marshals, and railroad detectives fork over their change as meek as Moses.

I had a picture in a dealer's shop—his place burnt down—I made him fork over.

I'll make somebody fork over to a stiff tune, and serve him d—— right.

As indicated above, these positions may be easily found by rotating a vibrating fork over a resonant air column, or near the ear.

Now and then it is well to turn the fork over and run it down into the fire to keep the fire level.

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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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