hard cash

Example Sentences

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Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Pyongyang has also moved to revive inbound tourism to earn much-needed hard cash, developing lavish coastal and mountain resorts.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

There is only emptiness: a hollow space where a heart should be, ready to be filled with cold, hard cash.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025

Cold hard cash, way beyond the initial price tag for raw materials to keep Scunthorpe going for a few more weeks.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

He had paid off in hard cash a large share of the claims the building societies made upon him, for expenses they had incurred in improving the property.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard