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What does the expression 'to cut a cheque' mean?
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can someone explain - I've never come across it before
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Quite a common phrase here in the U.S., meaning, simply, "I'll pay you with a check". Unable to find the etymology, but suspect it has to do with the earlier days of paying bills by check (cheque) when the checks were printed several to a sheet of bond paper and literally had to be cut out individually when issued... Let's see if Q arrives for a more diffinitive answer...
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