hair on it
v. phr.— «M&T Bank also said the investors who buy the bank’s mortgage debt are taking advantage of contractual clauses to force M&T to buy loans back, sometimes because of payment defaults. The bank set aside $6 million anticipating that more investors will force M&T to repurchase Alt-A loans at a loss.…“Buyers are getting very edgy right now.…Anything that shows any hair on it is going to get put back to the lenders.”» —“Mortgage Woes Spread Up Credit Ladder” by Dan Seymour Fortune Apr. 2, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Default as a noun and default as a verb are the same word, with a familiar English stress shift: nouns often take first-syllable stress, while verbs often take second-syllable stress, as with the different pronunciations of record. A New York City...
Susan from Virginia Beach, Virginia, shares the phrase her mother used when the kids refused to eat: It’ll grow hair on your back teeth. This supposed motivator likely blends two older traditions: a German idiom, Haare auf den Zähnen haben...