“the bank”

The following 3 entries include the term the bank.

break the bank

idiom

: to be very expensive or too expensive : to cost a lot of money usually used in negative statements

laugh all the way to the bank

idiom

: to make a lot of money especially by doing something that other people thought was foolish or amusing

run on the bank

noun phrase

: an occurrence when a lot of people take their money out of a bank because they are afraid that the bank will fail


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