lighten someone's purse

Meaning: (idiomatic)totakemoneyfrom someone.1883,Howard Pyle, chapter V, inThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood[…], New York, N.Y.:[…]Charles Scribner’s Sons[…],→OCLC:For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before helightened their purses.

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