dip into your pocket

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.

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  • 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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