your money or your life

your money or your life

obsolete I will kill you if you don't give me your money. The phrase is commonly associated with robbery by highwaymen. He approached me and shouted, "Your money or your life!" so I gave him all the money I had.
See also: life, money
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • no cigar
  • stand and deliver
  • sure as eggs is eggs
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
  • a penny for them
  • EMILY
  • great minds
  • great minds think alike
  • be twiddling (one's) thumbs
  • be twiddling your thumbs