borrow trouble
To worry about future events not in one's control and that may not come to pass.
borrow
/ˈbɒɹəʊ/
verb 5noun 5name 1
Collocations
5(verb.) money/things
ADV
heavily
The young couple had to borrow heavily from the bank to buy their first home.
PREP
from
I borrowed my friend's umbrella from her because it was raining heavily outside.
off
My sister borrowed my phone off me yesterday to make an important call.
(verb.) ideas, etc.
ADV
freely
PREP
from
The chef borrows ideas from different cuisines to create her unique menu.
Definitions
verb
1
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
2
To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
3
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
4
To adopt a word from another language.
Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.
5
In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
noun
1
Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
The amount of borrow, as we term it, that must be taken from the side of any particular slope is entirely a matter of mathematical calculation, […]
2
A borrow pit.
As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows.
3
In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows).
noun
1
A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
2
A surety; someone standing bail.
”where am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; and it will be necessary for that purpose that I go to Jorvaulx myself; ye may retain as borrows my two priests.”
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Idioms & Phrases
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Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are
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to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
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It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
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This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
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The amount of borrow, as we term it, that must be taken from the side of any particular slope is entirely a matter of mathematical calculation, […]
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[…] slippery contours, so that in making a side hill putt more than the usual amount of borrow had to be considered.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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