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) 0 y# ^+ c: r: s9 {3 \% I1 X% O9 M! ~; b/ O1 A4 c4 A
to blurt out; state, as by way of making a confession / E5 }6 o3 A; q7 a i- n, |% c5 X9 J/ x* Y0 s5 L, V
eg. After several hours of vigorous questioning by the police, he finally coughed up the information. ; @2 u( w0 g: i$ G, Y/ |6 W* d