cross someone's palm with silver

cross someone's palm with silver (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's palm with silver, present participle crossing someone's palm with silver, simple past and past participle crossed someone's palm with silver)

1. Alternative form of cross someone's palm
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     As we drove off I was inclined to ask myself, a little bitterly — and perhaps unjustly — if it were not characteristic of the average London policeman to almost forget the most important part of his information, — at any rate to leave it to the last and only to bring it to the front on having his palm crossed with silver.