Pawn-shop
A pawn-shop — where treasured things are surrendered for cash — often touches disappointments and losses, unpleasant scenes, and risk to your good name. The dream may ask what of value you're tempted to give up for short-term relief, and whether redeeming it later might regain a lost position or whether the trade leaves a lasting stain.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pawn-shop, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If in your dreams you enter a pawn-shop, you will find disappointments and losses in your waking moments.
To pawn articles, you will have unpleasant scenes with your wife or sweetheart, and perhaps disappointments in business.
For a woman to go to a pawn-shop, denotes that she is guilty of indiscretions, and she is likely to regret the loss of a friend.
To redeem an article, denotes that you will regain lost positions.
To dream that you see a pawn-shop, denotes you are negligent of your trust and are in danger of sacrificing your honorable name in some salacious affair.