cross palm with silver

cross someone's palm with silver

Fig. to pay money to someone in payment for a service. (A fortune-teller might ask for a potential customer to cross her palm with silver. Used in that sense or jocularly for something like tipping a porter.) I crossed his palm with silver, but he still stood there. You will find that things happen much faster in hotels if you cross the staff's palms with silver fairly often.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Myghal	-	Cornish
Bernd	BERNT	German
Joash	JO-ash (English)	Biblical
Svyatopolk	-	Russian
Vasant	-	Indian, Marathi, Gujarati
Maikel	-	Dutch