{"id":72830,"date":"2019-11-11T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72830"},"modified":"2019-11-11T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:01:35","slug":"have-ones-hand-in-the-till","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/have-ones-hand-in-the-till\/","title":{"rendered":"Have One&#8217;s Hand In The Till"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A till<\/strong> is a cash register or drawer for keeping money in a shop or office.<\/p>\n<p>When you <strong>have your hand in the till<\/strong>, you have easy access to the moneybox. The idiom have one\u2019s hand \/ fingers in the till is used to suggest that an employee is stealing the money that belongs to his employer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How could he buy such a big house? He must have his hand in the till. (= He must be stealing money from the place he works.)<\/li>\n<li>They caught him with his hand \/ fingers in the till and promptly terminated his service.<\/li>\n<li>The manager was outraged when he found out that the cashier had his hand \/ fingers in the till.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The expression <strong>have one\u2019s hand in the cookie jar<\/strong> also means the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A till is a cash register or drawer for keeping money in a shop or office. When you have your hand in the till, you have easy access to the moneybox. The idiom have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,1860],"class_list":["post-72830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-have-ones-hand-in-the-till"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72831,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72830\/revisions\/72831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}