Meanings of private pocket in English

Were those expenses paid out of the private pocket of the present Prime Minister?

But why should we allow him to pay that out of his private pocket?

The real list in the original was now in the private pocket-book of the Viceroy.

If the king won, the gold went into his private pocket; if he lost, the state treasury suffered.

The difference between fifteen pounds and fifty would have to be refunded out of his own private pocket.

Both were rigorously searched; the Jew's papers and cases taken from him: the jewel was found in a private pocket.

He, so the charge said,-andunfortunately said so with only too much truth,-hadput the twelve pounds into his own private pocket.

I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor's searchers.

Certainly it is in the millions-from both public and private pockets.

Di Salvo's dreams were quickly dashed as funds were siphoned into private pockets.

State funds get funneled into private pockets, while more than three quarters of the population lives in extreme poverty.

Our only qualification would be a guarantee it is going into the attempt to overthrow the Soviets-notinto private pockets.

Then there is the money people are spending on childcare from their private pockets -which for so many is already unaffordable.

Many a US orchestra has been brought into being as a gesture of civic pride, funded out of the private pockets of interested musical citizens.

Nigeria's anti-corruption agency estimates about $400bn has been siphoned off from the oil-rich country into private pockets since 1960.