anaconda mortgage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other property. Southern,US,dated,idiomatic
    — [I]t was not given to the prophet Isaiah even, to look down the vista of time for 2,500 years and read the Statutes of Arkansas. Under them every man who executes an anaconda mortgage is considered to plant and eat not; for them the heavens might as well be brass and the earth iron.

词形变化

anaconda mortgages plural

词源

An allusion to being trapped in the crushing coils of a large constrictor snake, such as an anaconda, suggesting the crushing burden of such debt.
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