hard cash
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At least the latter pay their way in cold, hard cash.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
“We are excited to lie constantly for cold, hard cash, but this time in a cool way, and we’ll make sure some of it gets back to the families,” Collins told The Times.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026
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
Very little money is paid, and that in hard cash only; no bank-bills of any kind being taken in that quarter.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe