cough up

The Bruins coughed up two fumbles in the first half and would have lost a third had the Huskies not been called for defensive holding on the play, nullifying the turnover.

With a 4-2 victory that saw it twice cough up the lead, the team booked its place in next summer’s World Cup in North America.

So far, the Home Office has coughed up more than £116m in compensation to people whose lives were turned upside down by being wrongly labelled as illegal immigrants under the former government's "hostile environment" policies.

Enthralled by Burbage’s big talk, John Brayne sold his house, let his business slide and coughed up the money needed to begin construction amid the ruins of a medieval priory.

There are a few possible reasons investors are coughing up so much money for these homes.