mortgage burner

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cash crop or choice of livestock regarded as the best bet for a smallholder farmer in some particular time and place (under current market conditions).
    — Hogs were a mortgage burner at the time; a new hoghouse could pay its way.

词形变化

词源

From the notion of burning the mortgage note (promissory note) after paying off the mortgage.
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