hard cash
Bills and coins
Hard cash is physical currency—coins and bills you can hold, as opposed to checks, credit, or digital payment.
The phrase emphasizes tangibility and immediacy: They wanted hard cash, not promises.
Hard cash suggests reliability and finality in a transaction, since it can't bounce or be reversed.
- coinsMetal money units
- currencyMedium of exchange
- moneyCurrency for transactions
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- dollarBasic U.S. currency unit
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hard cashcredit
Recognition or payment deferral
IOU · promissory note · check · cheque · credit card
hard cashdebt
Money owed another
bad check · bounced check · empty promise · rubber check · loan
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