stand and deliver

English

Verb

stand and deliver (third-person singular simple present stands and delivers, present participle standing and delivering, simple past and past participle stood and delivered)

A phrase traditionally used by a highwayman commanding victims to hand over their valuables.
Stand and deliver! Your money or your life!
- (Traditional) Whiskey in the Jar (song)
  As I was going over the far famed Kerry mountains
  
  I met with Captain Farrell and his money he was counting.
  
  I first produced my pistol, and then produced my rapier.
  
  Said stand and deliver, or the devil he may take ye life!

Translations

phrase traditionally used by a highwayman commanding victims to hand over their valuables

Hungarian: pénzt vagy életet!
Serbo-Croatian: pare ili život (idiom)

See also

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