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[carry weight]{n.} To be influential; have significance and/or clout; impress. •/A letter of recommendation from a full professor carries more weight than a letter from an assistant professor./

[cart before the horse (to put)]{n. phr.}, {informal} Things in wrong order; something backwards or mixed up. — An overused expression. Usually used with "put" but sometimes with "get" or "have". •/When the salesman wanted money for goods he hadn’t delivered, I told him he was putting the cart before the horse./ •/To get married first and then get a job is getting the cart before the horse./

[cart off] or [cart away] {v.}, {informal} To take away, often with force or with rough handling or behavior. •/The police carted the rioters off to jail./ •/When Bobby wouldn’t eat his supper, his mother carted him away to bed./

[carved] or [chiseled] or [inscribed in granite] / [written in stone] {adj. phr.} Holy; unchangeable; noble and of ancient origin. •/You should wear shoes when you come to class, although this is not carved in granite./ •/The Constitution of the United States is so hard to change that one thinks of it as written in stone./

[case] See: BASKET CASE, CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES, COUCH CASE, GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS also GET DOWN TO CASES, IN ANY CASE, IN CASE or IN THE EVENT, IN CASE OF also IN THE EVENT OF, VANITY CASE.

[case in point]{n. phr.} An example that proves something or helps to make something clearer. •/An American can rise from the humblest beginnings to become President. Abraham Lincoln is a case in point./

[case the joint]{v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To study the layout of a place one wishes to burglarize. •/The hooded criminals carefully cased the joint before robbing the neighborhood bank./ 2. To familiarize oneself with a potential workplace or vacation spot as a matter of preliminary planning. •/"Hello Fred," he said. "Are you working here now?" "No, not yet," Fred answered. "I am merely casing the joint."/

[cash] See: COLD CASH.

[cash-and-carry(1)]{adj.} Selling things for cash money only and letting the customer carry them home, not having the store deliver them; also sold in this way. •/This is a cash-and-carry store only./ •/You can save money at a cash-and-carry sale./

[cash-and-carry(2)]{adv.}. With no credit, no time payments, and no deliveries. •/Some stores sell cash-and-carry only./ •/It is cheaper to buy cash-and-carry./

[cash crop]{n.} A crop grown to be sold. •/Cotton is a cash crop in the South./ •/They raise potatoes to eat, but tobacco is their cash crop./

[cash in]{v.} 1. To exchange (as poker chips or bonds) for the value in money. •/He paid the bill by cashing in some bonds./ •/When the card game ended, the players cashed in their chips and went home./ 2. or [cash in one’s chips] {slang} To die. •/When the outlaw cashed in his chips, he was buried with his boots on./ •/He was shot through the body and knew he was going to cash in./

[cash in on]{v.}, {informal} To see (a chance) and profit by it; take advantage of (an opportunity or happening). •/Mr. Brown cashed in on people’s great interest in camping and sold three hundred tents./