break the bank

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break the bank 的定义

  1. Ruin one financially, exhaust one's resources, as in I guess the price of a movie won't break the bank. This term originated in gambling, where it means that a player has won more than the banker can pay. It also may be used ironically, as above. [c. 1600]

break the bank 近义词

break the bank

等同于 hit the jackpot

break the bank

等同于 advance

更多break the bank例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
  5. I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
  6. In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
  7. Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.
  8. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  9. Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
  10. The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.