lighten someone's purse
English
Verb
- (idiomatic) to take money from someone.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before he lightened their purses.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
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