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On the Cuff

Free of charge, extension in credit, to be paid later

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  • In old days the bartenders tend to have stiff cuffs which separated the shirtsleeves. The phrase could have originated from those days. The charges of the service were often written on these cuffs by the bartenders. Thus the idiom originated to express the charges to be paid. A similar idiom but with opposite meaning is “off the cuff.”
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He tried to buy a car on the cuff.

Submitted on February 25, 2019

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sur la manumo

en el puño

कफ पर

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