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Phrase(s): chip something in (on something)
Go to chip in (on something)., Phrase(s): chip in (on something) [and] chip something in (on something)
1. to contribute a small amount of money to a fund that will be used to buy something. • Could you chip in a dollar on the gift, please? 2. chip in (on something) (for someone) to contribute money toward a gift for someone. • Would you please chip in on the present for Richard? • Will you chip in for Randy?, Phrase(s): chip something in (on something) (for someone)
Go to chip in (with something) (on something) (for someone)., Phrase(s): chip in (with something) (on something) (for someone) [and] chip in (with something) (for something) (for someone); chip something in (on something) (for someone)
to contribute money for a gift for someone. • Would you like to chip in with a little cash on a gift for Carol? • I will chip in a little with you on a gift for Carol. • Would you chip in with a few bucks for a gift for Carol? • Would you chip a few bucks in on a gift for Carol? • Would you care to chip in on a gift for the teacher? • Yes, I’d be happy to chip in.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Contribute money, help, or advice, as in If we all chip in we'll have enough to buy a suitable gift, or Everyone chipped in with ideas for the baby shower. Mark Twain used this term in Roughing It (1872): "I'll be there and chip in and help, too." [Mid-1800s] 2. In poker and other games, to put up chips or money as one's bet. For example, I'll chip in another hundred but that's my limit or, as Bret Harte put it in Gabriel Conroy (1876): "You've jest cut up thet rough with my higher emotions, there ain't enough left to chip in on a ten-cent ante." [Mid-1800s]
American Heritage Idioms