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  1. My guess is that if someone is boasting about something, others would call them out by saying to put money on it, to back up their words. Kind of like swearing an oath?

    Here is what Google says: “It is believed that this idiom was popular in the United States in the 1930s and in Great Britain after WWII when the British government wanted to get people to invest in the National Savings Bank and therefore used this idiom as a slogan. Thus it is used to urge less talk and more action.”

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