"stand and deliver" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: stands and delivers [present, singular, third-person], standing and delivering [participle, present], stood and delivered [participle, past], stood and delivered [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|stand<,,stood> and deliver<>}} stand and deliver (third-person singular simple present stands and delivers, present participle standing and delivering, simple past and past participle stood and delivered)
  1. A phrase traditionally used by a highwayman commanding victims to hand over their valuables. Related terms: your money or your life, hands up, stick 'em up, reach for the sky Translations (phrase traditionally used by a highwayman commanding victims to hand over their valuables): pénzt vagy életet! (Hungarian), pare ili život [idiomatic] (Serbo-Croatian)

Inflected forms

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