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break the bank en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (intransitive) At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
   • Or, similarly, consider the man determined to break the bank at Monte Carlo by studying the frequencies with which a certain roulette wheel lands in the red 2001, Richard Swinburne, Epistemic Justification:
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To exhaust one's financial resources.
   • Home Security Doesn't Have to Break the Bank 2001, Tom Davidson, Lorna Gentry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Security:

Forms

Translations (22)

ru сорва́ть банк (win all the money that is available to be paid) · pl rozbijać bank (win all the money that is available to be paid) · cmn 讓銀行倒閉 /让银行倒闭 (win all the money that is available to be paid) · cmn 破產 /破产 (exhaust one's financial resources) · cmn 耗費巨資 /耗费巨资 (exhaust one's financial resources) · hu bankot robbant (win all the money that is available to be paid) · pl rozbić bank (win all the money that is available to be paid) · it far saltare il banco (win all the money that is available to be paid) · fi tuhlata rahansa (exhaust one's financial resources) · ru вы́лететь в трубу́ (exhaust one's financial resources) · cmn 贏大錢 /赢大钱 (win all the money that is available to be paid) · ru прогоре́ть (exhaust one's financial resources) · es hacer saltar la banca (win all the money that is available to be paid) · de den finanziellen Rahmen sprengen (exhaust one's financial resources) · ca fer saltar la banca (win all the money that is available to be paid) · cmn 傾家蕩產 /倾家荡产 (exhaust one's financial resources) · de den finanziellen Spielraum übersteigen (exhaust one's financial resources) · fr faire sauter la banque (win all the money that is available to be paid) · es arruinarse (exhaust one's financial resources) · fi räjäyttää pankki (win all the money that is available to be paid) · de die Bank sprengen (win all the money that is available to be paid) · fr casser sa tirelire (exhaust one's financial resources)