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.

And she handed me twenty dollars / For a two fifty fare, she said / "Harry, keep the change."1972, Harry Chapin, “Taxi”, in Heads & Tales:

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