“Bridge Loan” in the popular lexicon also means a short-term loan that a person or company takes out until they can secure permanent financing or can remove an impediment to permanent financing.
I know. In some circles it’s colloquially called loan sharking. Apparently, my feeble attempt of making a pun on the “bridge” word association in this case was less obvious and funny than I thought it might be... Oh well, back to school.