break the bank

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

break the bank (third-person singular simple present breaks the bank, present participle breaking the bank, simple past broke the bank, past participle broken the bank)

(intransitive) At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
(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

Translations

win all the money that is available to be paid

Chinese:
Mandarin: 贏大錢, 赢大钱 (yíng dàqián), 讓銀行倒閉, 让银行倒闭 (ràng yínháng dǎobì)
Finnish: räjäyttää pankki
French: faire sauter la banque (fr)

German: die Bank sprengen
Russian: сорва́ть банк (sorvátʹ bank)
Spanish: hacer saltar la banca

exhaust one's financial resources

Chinese:
Mandarin: 耗費巨資, 耗费巨资 (hàofèi jùzī), 破產 (zh), 破产 (zh) (pòchǎn), 傾家蕩產 (zh), 倾家荡产 (zh) (qīngjiādàngchǎn)
Finnish: tuhlata rahansa (to squander one's money)
French: casser sa tirelire

German: please add this translation if you can
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: arruinarse (es)

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