Friday, March 29, 2013

cliché: bank on it

Meaning: do with certainty (definition).

Example: Her recipe for cherry pie is a winner, you may bank on it.


Origins: Late 1800s; alludes to banks as a place of safe storage for money. (Source.)

Rewrites:


  • deposit on it
  • invest with it
  • secure a loan with it
  • bet your house on it
  • build a career on it
  • give a blind date a second call over it

Discussion: This rewrite is about being so confident in something that you can move ahead as you would in other interactions of life with confidence.

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