Just as countries like Greece and Cyprus borrowed credibility from Germany by sharing a currency in the mid 2000s, Scotland would hope its debt interest payments would be close to the low rates Britain pays.
They wanted to borrow a bit of credibility from the same "mainstream media" that they choose at other moments to bash as biased.
She has had surprisingly few hits (Paper Planes is her only really successful single) and many have failed to chart, yet Jay Z, Kanye West and Madonna, all far more commercially successful artists, have wanted to collaborate and borrow some of her credibility.
But these days, confusion reigns: the strictures of realism and credibility, borrowed from film, theatre and TV casting, have caught up with opera, but only inconsistently, because voices of greatness do not always inhabit bodies conventionally regarded as acceptable.
Rucker sings, "Dance around the kitchen to a George Strait song" — hoping, like the others, to borrow some of Strait's unimpeachable country credibility.
President Trump's credibility as a world leader has been, to borrow his vulgarity, shot to shit.
"We've got a plan that gives us credibility in the world and enables us to borrow at very low interest rates.
Their best chance for getting their money back is a new regime in Iraq, preferably one that needs to borrow money from international banks and must first drum up credibility by paying off the country's old debts.
The government's credibility, and hence the rates at which it can borrow, will also suffer, further undermining the IMF scheme.
