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。
吐槽? : {2 Q0 H" b; p: }# n & v; P7 Q/ I2 h+ v8 O! }cough up (Slang) , ]3 Z! E1 {* t/ k3 U$ N+ |0 ]' |5 }% N% C8 o$ w0 g8 A9 S
to blurt out; state, as by way of making a confession 3 a" b# ]1 N: V" o3 e, e8 X( P* @2 h( c, G7 D' v$ o6 k. M
eg. After several hours of vigorous questioning by the police, he finally coughed up the information.8 v" v/ M/ F; V! m$ A