bank on sb/sth
— phrasal verb with bank uk/bæŋk/us/bæŋk/verb
to expect something or depend on something happening:
Can I bank on your support?
[ + -ing verb ] I wouldn't bank on him being there.
"Do you think she'll come?" "I wouldn't bank on it."
I'd banked on getting a pay rise this year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Trusting and not trusting
- (you can) depend on/upon it idiom
- accept/take sth on faith idiom
- bank
- believe
- believe in sb
- count
- count on sb
- faith
- have faith! idiom
- I wouldn't trust sb as far as I could throw them idiom
- keep faith with sth/sb idiom
- lean
- lean on sb/sth
- reliance
- rely on/upon sb/sth
- repose
- repose trust/confidence/hope in sb/sth idiom
- trust
- trustable
- turn
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