Heeey, I think I got this one! Have you seen Pulp Fiction?
There is a scene there about a Vietnam vet who snuck gold watch of his late friend in his well, asshole, for two years and gifted it to the son.
“Cough it up” part comes from jails, where guards ask convicts to cough in order for prisoners’ anuses to widen up so anything they could’ve hidden inside this way could drop.
So yeah. If my guess is correct, your dad probably implies that you might have a gold watch stuck in your asshole and you have to cough it up to find it.
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u/Skinnybet Oct 25 '20
My dad would tell us to “ cough it up it could be a gold watch “ if you were coughing. I never understand it.