cash on the barrelhead
Example Sentences
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From five bids for the Stevens it chose to take $5,251,000 cash on the barrelhead from Arnold Kirkaby, who already owns Chicago's Drake and Blackstone Hotels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jim Penney had a better idea: cash on the barrelhead.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the small fry, that kind of cash on the barrelhead is a huge inducement: if they hang on and sell their liquor themselves, they are liable to excess-profits taxes running up to 90%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereafter no belligerent may buy arms in the U. S. without paying cash on the barrelhead.
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She paid for the whole thing cash on the barrelhead!
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
