hard cash

noun

1. actual money as distinguished from checks or credit.

hard cash

noun

1. money or payment in the form of coins or notes rather than cheques or credit

Idioms and Phrases

see cold cash .

Example Sentences

What they found was that agricultural subsidies are hurting the planet—but that cold hard cash can be repurposed into more sustainable crops and other ways to make the industry more sustainable.

From Popular-Science

Facebook’s foray into creator payments is just the latest effort to jump-start TikTok competitor products with cold hard cash.

From TechCrunch

The most common argument against the program I’ve heard so far is that eligible recipients aren’t getting cold, hard cash.

From FiveThirtyEight

Romney’s plan offers more parents more cold, hard cash, but scraps a lot of other federal assistance to young families.

From Time

The fees are usually outlined in the publishing site’s guest post criteria and can range anywhere from $30 to hundreds, so be prepared to shell out some cold hard cash.

From Search Engine Watch

A better way to help the poor is to just give them cold-hard cash—and stop lecturing them about how to spend their money!

From The Daily Beast

The Cold War may be over in the Western imagination for a number of reasons, but the triumph of cold hard cash is one of them.

From The Daily Beast

But there may be more to 2014's Bible resurgence than cold, hard cash.

From The Daily Beast

He was depicted as the “fence”—or the person taxed with selling all the ill-gotten goods for cold, hard cash.

From The Daily Beast

The hidden engine behind the state's well-oiled prison machine is cold, hard cash.

From The Daily Beast

How do you expect to make money in this country if you won't take anything for granted, except hard cash?

From Project Gutenberg

They were bribed and intimidated; they were offered posts and pensions: some of them were bought with hard cash.

From Project Gutenberg

Here,” and he pointed to the top of the page, “is a summary of your deposit—four million dollars, all in hard cash.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon my word, Miss Clare seems to attract a great many notabilities around her without the aid of hard cash.

From Project Gutenberg

Trust no man or womans virtue till you have tried to purchase it with a round sum in hard cash!

From Project Gutenberg