[Ads-l] jawbone = credit

[James A. Landau]

It strikes me that "jawbone" meaning credit (i.e. being able to borrow or raise money) could have come from the idea that to get access to credit you had to do a lot of jawboning, i.e. pleading and persuading.

- Jim Landau

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