| 单词 | to have a monkey on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a monkey on 24. colloquial. A mortgage. Chiefly in to have a monkey on: to have a mortgage on (a house, etc.).Perhaps originally English regional (northern and midlands): see Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > requiring or giving legal security > [noun] > legal security > mortgage > mortgage deed mortgagea1393 monkey1862 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 359 When property is mortgaged it is said to have ‘t' monkey at top o' 't’—the monkey sitting at the top of it. 1877 Notes & Queries 13 Oct. 289/1 A Monkey on the House. 1886 Graphic 10 Apr. 399/2 To a lawyer..a mortgage is a ‘monkey with a long tail’. 1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo ii. 30 She was determined to pay off the mortgage and hand the station over to Hugh without ‘a monkey on it’. ?1946 P. H. Simpson If you'd care to Know 135 This mortgage is known as ‘a monkey on the house’. c1994 K. Watts 21st Cent. Dict. Slang 173 What's the monkey on that corner unit? < as lemmas |
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