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paper

1. An official written document. You better get some paper showing that the boss granted you an extra week of vacation time, just in case.
2. slang Money. This new job is great—I've never made so much paper in my life!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

paper

1. n. a written document; written evidence supporting something. (Often with some.) Send me some paper. Let’s make this official.
2. n. a forged check. (see also paper-pusher, paper-hanger.) She was arrested for passing paper.
3. n. money. You don’t get the goods till I get the paper.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) busy as a one-armed paperhanger (with an itch)
  • (I'll) see you in the funny papers
  • (one's) marching papers
  • (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • a paper tiger
  • a paper trail
  • a pen pusher
  • a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on
  • bad paper
  • be not worth the paper it's printed on
  • can't carry a tune
  • can't carry a tune in a paper sack
  • can't punch (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • can't punch (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • can't punch one's way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't act (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't act (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • couldn't fight (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't fight (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't find (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't punch (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • get (one's) walking papers
  • get (something) (down) on paper
  • give (one) (one's) walking papers
  • give somebody their walking papers
  • give someone their walking papers
  • go peddle your papers
  • green
  • green paper
  • hang paper
  • he, she, etc. couldn't punch his, her, etc. way out of a paper bag
  • hot paper
  • in paper
  • light the (blue) touch paper
  • light the blue touch paper
  • look good on paper
  • make the papers
  • not worth the paper it is written on
  • not worth the paper it's printed on
  • not worth the paper it's printed/written on
  • not worth the paper it's written on
  • on paper
  • one's walking papers
  • out of a paper bag
  • paper
  • paper chase
  • paper hanger
  • paper hanging
  • paper layer
  • paper laying
  • paper never refused ink
  • paper over
  • paper over (the cracks), to
  • paper over something
  • paper over the cracks
  • paper pusher
  • paper thin
  • paper tiger
  • paper trail
  • paper-hanger
  • paper-pusher
  • play the papers
  • push paper
  • push paper(s)
  • put (something) (down) on paper
  • put on paper
  • put pen to paper
  • send in (one's) papers
  • send in your papers
  • set pen to paper
  • walking papers
  • white paper
References in classic literature
Some of the paper people were on the street, walking along or congregated in groups and talking together; but as soon as they saw the strangers they all fluttered into the houses as fast as they could go, so as to be out of danger.
The Emerald City of Oz
Consider what a fifth part of the reading-matter of an American daily paper issued in a city of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants amounts to!
Tramp Abroad
There is one marked peculiarity about this paper, a thing nobody seems to notice but myself,and that is that it changes as the light changes.
Yellow Wallpaper
At first he had not seemed to attach much importance to the paper, but when he saw it he appeared more interested, and when he had opened and read a little of it through his eye-glass, he became amazed.
Bleak House
But why should papers of political import be intrusted to Van Baerle, who not only was, but also boasted of being, an entire stranger to the science of government, which, in his opinion, was more occult than alchemy itself?
The Black Tulip
The morning papers on Saturday contained, in addition to lengthy special articles on the planet Mars, on life in the planets, and so forth, a brief and vaguely worded telegram, all the more striking for its brevity.
War Of The Worlds
I thought it best to put a fair face on my consent, for I saw Alan troubled; and, besides (thinks I to myself), as soon as my back is turned, they will paper me, as they call it, whether I consent or not.
Kidnapped
You must put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass box which you have described.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I am convinced that these marks were left by the man who rifled the papers. There were no footmarks and no other evidence as to his identity.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Now, I am coming to the paper, and mark what I say.
Little Dorrit
Darkness full of thunder followed, and after the thunder Father Brown's voice said out of the dark: "Doctor, this paper is the wrong shape."
The Innocence Of Father Brown
He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pock- ets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away.
Winesberg Ohio
Here we found many more verses on many more sheets of paper in the same hand-writing.
Law and the Lady
"Pen, ink, and paper, then," called Fernand loudly.
Count of Monte Cristo
The cars will go on running, whether I hold the paper or somebody else holds it.
Burning Daylight