outside the mortgage

[shery]

Hi Teacher,

Would you please help me with the two bracketed phrases? I don't quite understand.

1. The way it all happened, she can sue my britches off. All she could get
would be the house [outside of the mortgage.]

2. Then he borrowed another fifty dollars and Mister Singer [went on the
note with him.]

Thanks a lot.

[Robert B. Mercer]

1. The way it all happened, she can sue my britches off. All she could get
would be the house [outside of the mortgage.]

If you like to cook, but you do not like to wash the dishes afterwards, you say:
Outside of washing the dishes, I like to cook.

If you like every class in school, but not math, you say:
I like my classes, outside of math.

or,

I like school, but math is too hard... outside of that, I like school.

So, in your sentence, "they could sue me and win/get my house, but they would not get the mortgage."


2. Then he borrowed another fifty dollars and Mister Singer [went on the
note with him.]

Then <Tom> borrowed another... and Mister Singer promised that if Tom could not pay, Mister Singer would pay.

I cannot afford to borrow enough money to buy a house, but if my father goes on the note with me, I can. If I do not pay the money back, my father will----he is "on the note" with me.



Thanks a lot.