If you are in a room with no windows or other direct sources of light, and if light enters from an adjoining lighted room, the indirect illumination is borrowed light.
We worked in the library and had only the borrowed light from the adjacent room to work with that night.
by Luddz July 12, 2015
Get the borrowed light mug.Generally used by old people of themselves. They're living longer than they're "supposed to", hence they're living on borrowed time.
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Get the borrowed happiness mug.by Downstrike November 3, 2006
Get the borrowed time mug.That Stiff Ptr let somebody think that he actually has talent, so he decided to start a crappy band called borrowed time.
by Arnold B. Wally March 17, 2008
Get the borrowed time mug.Someone exhibiting an unprecedented (perhaps irrational) level of ballsy often seeming is if the exhibitor borrowed someone else's testicular pair to summon the ability to exert said level of ballsy.
Borrowed Pair-I can't imagine Mike tried to have the boss get fired. I wonder who's pair he borrowed to try doing that? Borrowed Pair
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Get the borrowed pair mug.When a person, or people, take a concept from a popular TV show - usually a catchphrase - and try and make it funny in every day life. Effectively borrowing the line to try and create humor.
Guy, who is not Dane Cook, walks into a party and yells "Wait a second?! Who shit on the coats!"
This is an example of borrowed humor. Expectations were not confounded, thence humor did not arise from it.
This is an example of borrowed humor. Expectations were not confounded, thence humor did not arise from it.
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