break the bank

English

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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)

1. (intransitive) At a casino etc., to win all the money that 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

Translations

win all the money that is available to be paid

• Catalan: fer saltar la banca
• 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
• Italian: far saltare il banco
• Polish: rozbijać bank impf, rozbić bank pf
• 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／破产 (zh) (pòchǎn), 傾家蕩產／倾家荡产 (zh) (qīngjiādàngchǎn)

• Finnish: tuhlata rahansa (to squander one's money)
• French: casser sa tirelire (fr)
• German: den finanziellen Rahmen sprengen, den finanziellen Spielraum übersteigen
• Russian: прогоре́ть (ru) pf (progorétʹ), вы́лететь в трубу́ (ru) pf (výletetʹ v trubú)
• Spanish: arruinarse (es)