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Won’t break the bank?

Hence the idea that if you have to break your piggy bank to buy something, then it is perhaps too expensive. Perhaps you should not buy it or you’d be left penniless and broke.

Now you’ll be able to remember the expression “break the bank”, I’m sure.

Piggy bank, though, is not the bank originally referred to in the expression “break the bank”. Originally, you see, “break the bank” is a gambling term, bank referring to the gambling table or, precisely, all the money the host has on it. The host is the dealer, sometimes called the banker. He puts on the table an amount of money for punters to bet against. Breaking the bank refers to the situation where a gambler get such a high winning number that the dealer doesn’t have enough money on the table to pay him. So he’ll have to dig into the casino house reserve in order to pay up.

Hence, from there, “breaking a bank” creeps into everyday language and is now used to describe any situation that’s financially ruinous.

Here are more examples:

1. Teresa Medina’s search to find an affordable outlet for her children this summer ended at Tyler’s P.T. Cole Park.

“We have fun, too, with them you know,” says Medina. Five playgrounds, five days a week, two Tyler recreation leaders strong wear the kids out with fun from 9 in the morning to 3.

“I just tell her let’s go to the park,” says Teresita, Medina’s daughter. The climbing and sliding will give parents a break, but it won’t break the bank... it’s free.