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to touch sb for a loan

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  • touch someone for — informal ask someone for (money) as a loan or gift. → touch …   English new terms dictionary

  • touch (someone) for (something) — vb to solicit, cadge. This colloquialism, used almost invariably in connection with a loan, has been recorded since 1760. Touch up is a less common alternative form, particularly in the USA …   Contemporary slang

  • Touch — Touch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Touched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Touching}.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • touch — I n. social contact 1) to get; keep, stay in touch 2) to lose touch with 3) close touch 4) in touch with smb. (keep in close touch with me) 5) out of touch with (I am out of touch with the present situation) feel 6) to the touch (smooth to the… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • touch — [[t]tʌ̱tʃ[/t]] ♦♦ touches, touching, touched 1) VERB If you touch something, you put your hand onto it in order to feel it or to make contact with it. [V n] Her tiny hands gently touched my face... [V n] Don t touch that dial... [V …   English dictionary

  • touch — 1. n. a likely target for begging; someone who is asked for a loan. (See also soft touch.) □ He was just the kind of touch we were looking for, not too bright and not too poor. □ The touch looked around him and gave the stiff two bits. 2. n. a… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • touch — [[t]tʌtʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) phl to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) so as to feel it 2) to bring (the hand, finger, etc., or something held) into contact with something: She touched a match to the papers[/ex] 3) to pat… …   From formal English to slang

  • touch — v. & n. v. 1 tr. come into or be in physical contact with (another thing) at one or more points. 2 tr. (often foll. by with) bring the hand etc. into contact with (touched her arm). 3 a intr. (of two things etc.) be in or come into contact with… …   Useful english dictionary

  • touch — /tʌtʃ / (say tuch) verb (t) 1. to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it. 2. to come into contact with and perceive (something), as the hand or the like. 3. to bring (the hand, finger, etc., or something held)… …  

  • touch — verb 1》 come into or be in contact with.     ↘come or bring into mutual contact.     ↘bring one s hand or another part of one s body into contact with.     ↘strike (a ball) lightly in a specified direction. 2》 harm or interfere with.     ↘[usu.… …   English new terms dictionary

  • To touch a sail — Touch Touch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Touched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Touching}.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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