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bank on
verb
- intr, preposition to expect or rely with confidence on
you can bank on him always arriving on time
Idioms and Phrases
Rely on, count on. For example, You can bank on Molly's caterer to do a good job . This expression alludes to bank as a reliable storage place for money. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
More than 500 years ago, when Portuguese sailors came across a shallow-water bank on the high seas over 700 miles east of the northern tip of Mauritius, they named it Saya de Malha, or “mesh skirt,†to describe the rolling waves of seagrass below the surface.
Two survivors of trafficking who worked in the Saya de Malha Bank on two of the vessels — the Kor Navamongkolchai 1 and Kor Navamongkolchai 8 — told Greenpeace that up to 50% of their catch had been sharks.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal was reportedly attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Monday.
“We can’t bank on the midterms, because as I speak, a South African Nazi and his criminal hackers are raiding federal buildings. That’s not normal. That’s a coup.â€
"I managed to flee safely… because I was crossing through the forest and moving along the bushes instead of the main road," he told the BBC after climbing up the bank on the Burundian side and wiping the water from his face.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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