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bank on

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bank on something
Fig. to be so sure of something that one can trust it as one might trust a bank with one's money. I will be there on time. You can bank on it. I need a promise of your help. I hope I can bank on it.
See also: bank

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.
See also: bank


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She had taken the advice of a friend and invested her savings in a bank on Ashland Avenue.
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.
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.
 
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