Usually means: Spend more money than planned.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. break the bank: Merriam-Webster
  2. break the bank, break the bank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break the bank: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break the bank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. break the bank: Wiktionary
  6. break the bank: Dictionary.com
  7. Break the Bank (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. break the bank: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. break the bank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break the bank: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break the bank: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (break the bank)

verb:  (intransitive) At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To exhaust one's financial resources.

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