breaking the bank
breaking the bank is the present participle and gerund of break the bank.
Meaning of break the bank
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)
- At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
- 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 red2001, Richard Swinburne, Epistemic Justification
- To exhaust one's financial resources.
- Home Security Doesn't Have to Break the Bank2001, Tom Davidson, Lorna Gentry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Security
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- Breaking the bank is the present participle and gerund of break the bank.
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