cash in chips
Related to cash in chips: ready money
cash in (one's) chips
1. To exchange one's chips (small discs used to represent money in some betting games, like poker) for money when one is done playing a game. I think I'm going to quit while I'm ahead and cash in my chips.
2. By extension, to stop participating in any gathering or activity. Well, it's been fun, fellas, but it's time for me to cash in my chips.
3. To leave a gathering and/or go to bed. I have to be up early tomorrow, so I'm going to cash in my chips.
4. To die. We were so lucky to avoid that massive accident—we could have cashed in our chips!
See also: cash, chip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
cash in chips
verbSee cash in one’s chips
See also: cash, chip
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- cash (one's) chips in
- cash in (one's) chips
- cash in one’s chips
- cash in your chips
- address (one's) comments to (someone or something)
- address comments or remarks to
- address (one's) remarks to (someone or something)
- (something) is over (one's) head
- (the) odds are against (something)
- a run on (something)