bankbook

bankbook

1. Literally, a book in which a depositor's financial transactions, such as deposits and withdrawals, are recorded by a bank. Now make sure you don't lose the bankbook, or the teller won't deposit this check.
2. By extension, wealth or finances in general. I'm a little worried about how I'm going to pay my rent this month because my bankbook is rather thin these days.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • literally
  • be lost in translation
  • caveat
  • caveat emptor
  • blow smoke
  • be bleeding red ink
  • (the) survival of the fittest
  • beat the hell out of
  • beat the tar out of
  • beat/knock/kick the hell out of somebody/something
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There was even a professional athlete with a body like Mike and bankbook to match.
And his bankbook? With a reported price of $3.5 million per picture, and sizable chunks of real estate in Los Angeles and Denver, there's no doubt his bankbook is just as big as everything else.
It takes longer and longer for my liver and bankbook to recover these days and the addition of the fourth day is - in my opinion - just tearing the erse out of it.
TORONTO - For all of their resources, from the farm system right through John Henry's bulging bankbook, the Red Sox are really not that much different from any other major league baseball team in one respect.
The new account, called ''Bio Security Deposit,'' is designed to prevent a person who steals another person's bankbook from withdrawing money by checking palm vein patterns in combination with the use of a seal or a personal identification number.
Middle-aged Cremin was battered to death and robbed of his watch, bankbook and pounds 67.
King Kieren didn't exactly cover himself in glory last Saturday and an impressive victory on this progressive son of Sadler's Wells can help ease the bankbook pain.
Darcus is left only with the clothes he is wearing, as his money and bankbook are in the back of the car.
Toyoda then stole her bankbook and withdrew about 10 million yen from her account the following month, the ruling said.
The Ehime man was arrested in February 1999 on suspicion of stealing a bankbook and a personal seal from a friend's house in Uwajima and then withdrawing 500,000 yen from a farm cooperative bank between October 1998 and January 1999.
Winning the jackpot in the financial product sector was the KB x BTS installment savings plan launched in June, offering special edition bankbooks with photos of BTS members, as well as an extra 0.1 percentage point of interest rate for deposits made on the group's debut anniversary or individual members' birthdays.
Three hours later, police investigators recovered inside Dollente's house the stolen laptop, tablet, mobile phone, wristwatch, identification cards, ATM cards, bankbooks and P7,000 cash of the victim.
If you think it sounds far-fetched, consider what workers in neighboring France were doing while their German counterparts were filling out their bankbooks:
Global Banking News-August 31, 2017--Korean banks to offer benefits to customers who do not opt for bankbooks
Other documents will be required; the list is similar to that for SSDI applicants, but also includes information on the applicant's residence; payroll slips, bankbooks, insurance policies, burial fund records, and other information about income and possessions; proof of U.S.