Be Careful What You 'Bank On' — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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On today’s show, we take you to the bank.
Banks help us manage our money. When we make deposits, we put money in; when we make withdrawals, we take money out. Banks help us reach important life goals. We can borrow money from a bank to buy a house. A bank can loan us money to start a business.
So, we need to trust our banks. And that need for trust gives us some idiomatic expressions in American English that are connected to banks.
The first is simply to bank on something. If you bank on something, you trust it will happen. In fact, you count on it happening. Sometimes we use this expression to mean our strategy depends on something to…
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