English

Verb
break the bank

1. intransitive (at a casino etc) To win more money than is available to be paid.
2. intransitive,idiomatic To exhaust one's financial resources.

Quotations
2001 Richard Swinburne - Epistemic Justification
: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 Tom Davidson, Lorna Gentry - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Security
:Home Security Doesn't Have to Break the Bank

• 2007-04-16 04:30 - Connel MacKenzie - ===Hdr===, [[User:Connel MacKenzie/Format|fmt]]

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