tea money

tea money
   British
   a bribe
   Paying for the essential need of the working man and woman, in field, factory, or office:
    Day-to-day we survive with bribery and black market. It used to be that a bribe was called tea money. Now we pay so much it is called beer money. (Maclean, 1998)

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