Brewer's: Conscience Money

Money paid anonymously to Government by persons who have defrauded the revenue. Their conscience being uneasy, they send the deficit to the Treasury, and the sum is advertised in the Gazette.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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