keep the change
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- An instruction to a taxi driver, waiter etc. to keep the change from the amount handed over as a tip.
- 1972, Harry Chapin (lyrics and music), “Taxi”, in Heads & Tales:
- And she handed me twenty dollars / For a two fifty fare, she said / "Harry, keep the change."
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instruction to keep the change
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