Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 4 compound words that contain borrowed. The most common are listed below. Open borrowed in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- borrowed timeA period of time whose precise duration is not known but which can be expected to be quite limited, and at the end of which one's situation, benefits, or opportunities will be entirely terminated.
- borrowed sceneryThe principle of incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden found in traditional East Asian garden design.
- borrowed troublesimple past and past participle of borrow trouble
- adorn oneself with borrowed plumesTo claim the honor of another for oneself.
- borrowed daysAlternative form of borrowing days: The last three days of March, supposed in Scottish and Irish folklore to have been borrowed by March from April, and to be especially stormy.
- borrowed lightA pane allowing light into a room from another room.
- borrowed lightsplural of borrowed light: A pane allowing light into a room from another room.
- borrowed neutralA wiring practice where the neutral conductor from one circuit is improperly shared or borrowed by another separate circuit, common in older wiring.
- twice-borrowedTerms in one language that were borrowed from a second language that originally borrowed the term from the first language.
- borrowed neutralsplural of borrowed neutral: A wiring practice where the neutral conductor from one circuit is improperly shared or borrowed by another separate circuit, common in older wiring.
- borrowed from Peter to pay Paulsimple past and past participle of borrow from Peter to pay Paul
- borrowed a leaf out of someone's booksimple past and past participle of borrow a leaf out of someone's book
- adorned oneself with borrowed plumessimple past and past participle of adorn oneself with borrowed plumes
- adorning oneself with borrowed plumespresent participle and gerund of adorn oneself with borrowed plumes
- adorns oneself with borrowed plumesthird-person singular simple present indicative of adorn oneself with borrowed plumes: To claim the honor of another for oneself.
Compound words 4
- unborrowedNot borrowed.
- nonborrowedNot borrowed.
- outborrowedsimple past and past participle of outborrow
- overborrowedsimple past and past participle of overborrow