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bank on

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bank on something
to depend on something. All I can bank on is that when I tell Dad what happened, he'll know what to do.
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She had taken the advice of a friend and invested her savings in a bank on Ashland Avenue.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
When the bank on the other side of the draw began to throw a narrow shelf of shadow, we knew we ought to be starting homeward; the chill came on quickly when the sun got low, and Antonia's dress was thin.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
said Marian, from the top of the roadside bank on which they had climbed, and were maintaining a precarious footing in the hope of creeping along its slope till they were past the pool.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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