| 单词 | to break the bank |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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