认识一个当地人,由于好久不见了,于是发短信问她的近况,并说了自己的近况,还说等天气好点一起见面聊聊之类的。她给我回复说“Sounds like we have a lot of coughing up to do. " 我大概能猜出来是说“我们到时可以好好聊聊说说之类的。”但又不确定,查字典coughing up 一般都是“咳嗽,勉强拿出” 的意思。请英语高手为我解答,什么叫coughing up to do. 非常感谢。
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cough up (Slang) 4 I& h- \( w& ~7 G0 O- m% }$ X8 y; l4 R5 O- P; P
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3 |5 Y* C( y6 d8 N) b& o4 Eeg. After several hours of vigorous questioning by the police, he finally coughed up the information." e8 W% U- r. w" @4 U% @# |' N