C
Idioms beginning with "C"
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[cash-and-carry] (2) {adv.}
With no credit, no time payments, and no deliveries.
Some stores sell cash-and-carry only.
It is cheaper to buy cash-and-carry.
[cash crop] {n.}
A crop grown to be sold.
Cotton is a cash crop in the South.
They raise potatoes to eat, but tobacco is their cash crop.
[cash in] {v.}
1. To exchange (as poker chips or bonds) for the value in money.
He paid the bill by cashing in some bonds.
When the card game ended, the players cashed in their chips and went home.
2. or [cash in one's chips] {slang}
To die.
[…]
[cash in on] {v.}, {informal}
To see (a chance) and profit by it; take advantage of (an opportunity or happening).
Mr. Brown cashed in on people's great interest in camping and sold three hundred tents.
[cash on the barrelhead] {n. phr.}, {informal}
Money paid at once; money paid when something is bought.
Father paid cash on the barrelhead for a new car.
Some lawyers want cash on the barrelhead.
Compare: [COLD CASH].
[cast] or [shed] or [throw light upon] {v. phr.}
To explain; illuminate; clarify.
The letters that were found suddenly cast a new light on the circumstances of Tom's disappearance.
* /Einstein's General Theory of Relativity threw light upon the […]
[cast about] also [cast around] {v.}, {literary}
1. To look everywhere; search.
The committee was casting about for an experienced teacher to take the retiring principal's place.
2. To search your mind; try to remember something; try to think of […]
[cast down] {adj.}
Discouraged; sad; unhappy. — Used less often than the reverse form, "downcast".
Mary was cast down at the news of her uncle's death.
Charles felt cast down when he lost the race.