It is a competition that has played out here with paid workers and volunteers in a strange universe of sleep deprivation, interminable door-to-door marches through cold rains, borrowed guest rooms and donated junk food.
If he gets cold, he can borrow that sweater.
Still, most of them walked ashore, some grim with fright and shivering with cold, wrapped in borrowed coats.
What she described as "the shilling-meter life" of cold bed-sitters, borrowed dresses, and lecherous bosses gave her the material for a number of novels both early in her career ("The Girls of Slender Means") and late ("A Far Cry from Kensington").
Mr. Biden described Mr. Romney as someone who viewed the world "through a cold war prism," borrowing the thought from Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, who said Mr. Romney's description of Russia as the nation's "No. 1 geopolitical foe" was 1970s thinking.
Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, seemed to borrow from the Cold War lexicon of deterrence in July when he told financial markets that the E.C.B. would do "whatever it takes to preserve the euro.
The view here is that we have always had weather and probably always will, that it is hot in summer and cold in winter, and, to borrow from Forrest Gump, that's all we have to say about that.
Say that you're cold and ask if you can borrow his hoodie.
You can buy or borrow patio heaters for colder months and a gazebo in case it rains.
As the cold weather persists, they have had to borrow money in between paychecks to make ends meet.
In February's budget the finance minister cut duties on cold-storage equipment and allowed Indian companies to borrow abroad to pay for it.
