14 Metaphors for loaning

A loan is money which a person lends.

This letter is of particular interest, showing, as it does, the tender solicitude of Becquer for his children, his dire financial straits when a loan of three or four dollars is a godsend, and his hesitation to call upon friends for aid even when in such difficulties.

So the loan of a piece of ground was a small thing to ask or to grant.

The loan of News from Nowhere was the beginning of a series of cross loans.

The loan is the present worth of those promises.

It is needless to go into details, now that public loans, the funding of floating indebtedness in excess of current income, and the maintenance of a national banking system to supply machinery of credit, are such well recognized functions that the wonder is how any statesman could have ever thought otherwise.

A loan is the easy and obvious way out.

The loan he proposed in June was eighty millions (of francs); in October, that which he demanded was four hundred and forty millions.

Eight years ago I declined a request of his for a loan, and told him my reasonsthat I believed loans were an injury to our friends or relatives.

A loan of £600,000 was the fair wind which filled his sails.

As the pledges offered were really worth the sum to be received, Hosea thought, taking the chances of recovering back his ancient loans, from the foreign estates of the heiress, into the account, the loan would be no bad investment of the pretended sequins of his friend Levi.

"M. Necker wants to govern the kingdom of France like his little republic of Geneva," people said: "he is making a desert round the king; each loan is the recompense for something destroyed."

Such being the terms of the loan we may be justified in supposingif Ruritania has a clean record in its treatment of its creditors, and if the issuing firm is one that can be relied on to do all that can be done to safeguard their interests, that the loan is a complete success and is fully subscribed for by the public.

The loaning of money was the royal road to affluence, and everybody who, by chance, had a spare gold florin or two, became ipso facto a "Presto" or bank.

14 Metaphors for  loaning