hark 관용구

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Jump the shark

Said of a salient point in a television show or other activity at which the popularity thereof begins to wane The Flintstones jumped the shark when a man from outer space came to visit them. The expression derives from an episode of the television sitcom 'Happy Days' in which Fonzie, clad in leather jacket and on water skis, jumps over a shark. That episode was widely seen as the beginning of the end for the formerly popular series.

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Loan shark

A loan shark lends money at very high rates of interest.

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a loan-shark

someone who lends money at high interest rates: "Don't borrow money from him - he's a complete loan-shark."

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hark back|back|hark

v., literary 1. To recall or turn back to an earlier time or happening. Judy is always harking back to the good times she had at camp. 2. To go back to something as a beginning or origin. The cars of today hark back to the first automobiles made about 1900. The slit in the back of a man's coal harks back to the days when men rode horseback.

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loan shark|loan|shark

n. phr. A money lender who charges excessive interest. Why go to a loan shark when you can borrow from the bank at the legal rate?

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hark

hark
hark back
1) to return to an earlier point so as to pick up the scent or trail again
2) to go back in thought or speech; revert or be reminiscent of

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hark back

hark back
Return to a previous point, as in Let us hark back briefly to my first statement. This expression originally alluded to hounds retracing their course when they have lost their quarry's scent. It may be dying out. [First half of 1800s]

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harken

harken
harken back
hearken back (see phrase under hearken)