dip into your pocket

dip into your pocket
dig/dip into (your) pocket to use your own money to pay for something.

Parents of young children have to dig deep into their pockets at Christmas-time.


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  • dip into your pocket — INFORMAL ► to spend some of your money on something: »She admitted that she had been forced to dip into her own pocket to make up a funding shortfall. Main Entry: ↑dip …   Financial and business terms

  • dip into your pocket — dip into your ˈpocket idiom (informal) to spend some of your own money on sth • She was forced to dip into her own pocket to pay for the repairs. Main entry: ↑dipidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • dig into your pocket — dig/dip into (your) pocket to use your own money to pay for something. Parents of young children have to dig deep into their pockets at Christmas time …   New idioms dictionary

  • dip into — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms dip into : present tense I/you/we/they dip into he/she/it dips into present participle dipping into past tense dipped into past participle dipped into 1) dip into something to read, watch, or listen to small… …   English dictionary

  • dip into pocket — dig/dip into (your) pocket to use your own money to pay for something. Parents of young children have to dig deep into their pockets at Christmas time …   New idioms dictionary

  • Harry in Your Pocket — Infobox Film name = Harry in Your Pocket caption = original film poster director = Bruce Geller producer = Bruce Geller Alan Godfrey writer = James Buchanan Ronald Austin starring = James Coburn Michael Sarrazin Trish Van Devere Walter Pidgeon… …   Wikipedia

  • dip — dip1 [ dıp ] verb ** 1. ) transitive to lower something into a liquid for a moment before taking it back out again: dip in/into: She dipped her handkerchief in the water and gently began to wipe the dirt from his face. a ) transitive to put an… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • dip — Slight drop in securities prices after a sustained uptrend. analysts often advise investors to buy on dips, meaning to buy when a price is momentarily weak. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary See: correction, break, crash. Bloomberg Financial… …   Financial and business terms

  • dip — 1 verb dipped, dipping 1 (T) to put something into a liquid and quickly lift it out again: Dip your finger in the batter and taste it. 2 (I) to go downwards: We watched the sun dip below the horizon. 3 dip your headlights/lights BrE to lower the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • dig into pocket — dig/dip into (your) pocket to use your own money to pay for something. Parents of young children have to dig deep into their pockets at Christmas time …   New idioms dictionary

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