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banker's hours
Fig. short work hours: 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. When did you start keeping banker's hours? There aren't many bankers who keep banker's hours these days.
See also: hour

emptier than a banker's heart

Rur. completely empty. My wallet was emptier than a banker's heart. His pockets were emptier than a banker's heart.
See also: empty, heart

keep banker's hours

Fig. to work or be open for business for less than eight hours a day. The advertising agency keeps banker's hours. They are only open until four. James doesn't really work full-time. He keeps banker's hours.
See also: hour, keep


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There are the publicity packages (sent in bankerly file folders), the splashy J.
As with the outside, elegance and bankerly decorum is provided by very careful control of proportions and good materials.
We've taken an industry that maybe has had a little rough-and-tumble image and sort of concrete on the shoes and a potbelly and a big cigar and given it a little more of a bankerly image," Nicolay says.
 
 
 
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