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) 6 W( P8 f4 q2 X5 X7 O! w" x* m 8 r3 R- \: m w9 e3 i6 f9 x( G! Lto blurt out; state, as by way of making a confession $ N* N/ @% d f8 Q5 ~( D% x 0 \6 H. Y8 D2 o, k% M3 ~5 Beg. After several hours of vigorous questioning by the police, he finally coughed up the information. 7 \9 \. P" S2 I4 C& F O+ j