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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Stump Up

Pay your reckoning; pay what is due. Ready money is called stumpy or stumps. An Americanism, meaning money paid down on the spot—i.e. on the stump of a tree. (See Nail.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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