VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Loan Shark

Meaning:

A predatory lender; one who makes high-interest loans to desperate people

Examples:

  • We talked to a loan shark that Leo borrowed money from.
  • Anyway, your business with a loan shark is a civil matter.
  • What are you, some kind of loan shark?
  • I mean, what's a loan shark supposed to do?
  • I started working for that loan shark in order to survive.
  • He was a loan shark, fleecing people with 30% interest rates.
  • It was supposed to go to my obnoxious, pushy loan shark.
  • He said he went to a loan shark.
  • Couple of weeks later, Jerry said he was in trouble with a loan shark.
  • So, you borrowed the money from a loan shark to make the deposit.