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see the colour of sb's money

informal

Definition

To see the colour of someone's money is to make certain that a person is going to pay for something
"I'll have one of those." "Let's see the colour of your money first!"

(Definition of see the colour of sb's money from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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