open cheque
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"I feel like I'm writing an open cheque," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024
Scotland's inaugural first minister Donald Dewar feared compensating people infected by contaminated blood could result in an "open cheque book".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2022
Let me give you an open cheque for two hundred—five hundred—pounds right away.
From The Everlasting Arms by Joseph Hocking
And there was an open cheque, signed by Cardlestone for ten thousand pounds, and another, with Elphick's name at the foot, also open, for half that amount.
From The Middle Temple Murder by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
Make it an open cheque, Mr. Tibbetts—I have to pay the agents in cash.
From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace
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