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单词 to break the bank
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to break the bank
a. To ruin financially, make bankrupt (a person or bank). to break the bank: formerly also in the sense ‘to become bankrupt’.To break the bank, in Gambling means to clear out the amount of money which the proprietor of the gaming table has before him: see bank n.3 5.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt
to play (the) bankrupt1548
bankrupt1552
to take Ludgate1585
break1600
to go down the weather1611
to break the bank1623
to go to the right shop1655
to swallow a spider1670
to march off1683
to go off1688
to break up shop1712
bust1834
burst1848
to go up King Street1864
to go bust1875
to go under1882
to belly up1886
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (transitive)] > bankrupt
craze1573
break1623
bankrupt?a1625
burst1712
to strike a docket1809
bust1827
smash1857
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > play games of chance [verb (intransitive)] > break bank
to break the bank1850
1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 399 The holiest man may bee deepe in arerages; and breake the banke.
1660 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Mores Hominum vii. 232 Meer expence in paper breaks you all.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 330 The necessities of the Army still pressed us..to break the Merchants here.
1705 N. Tate Triumph 4 Britain's Gen'ral came..and broke the Bank of Fame.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xviii. 177 He had seen his friend..break the bank three nights running at Paris.
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