bank night: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- A promotional event, especially common in mid-20th-century American cinemas, in which cash or prizes were awarded by raffle or ballot on a designated evening to attract patrons.
Examples
BetaThe old cinema used to hold a bank night every Friday to attract more customers with cash prizes.
El antiguo cine solía hacer noches de sorteo cada viernes para atraer más clientes con premios en efectivo.
Did you go to the bank night at the theater last weekend? I heard someone won a big jackpot.
¿Fuiste a la noche de premios en el teatro el fin de semana pasado? Escuché que alguien ganó un gran premio.
Bank night promotions were a popular way to boost attendance during the 1940s and 1950s.
Las noches de premios eran una forma popular de aumentar la asistencia durante los años 40 y 50.
Examples:
- EN: Tell her it was bank night.ES: Dígale que los ha ganado al póker.
- EN: Ah, don't fall for it, suckers. It's bank night!ES: Ni caso, es un mentiroso.ID: - Ah, jangan dibohongi, bodoh.
- EN: I hear old Uncle Cyrus's ghost is holding bank night.ES: He oído que el fantasma del tío Cyrus irá esta noche al banco.
- EN: ♪ This always happens when they have bank night ♪ES: Siempre sucede cuando tienen noche de premios
- EN: ♪ This bank night is beating them down ♪ES: Esta noche de premios está acabando con ellos
- EN: When's bank night?ES: ¿Cuándo es la noche de los presupuestos?
- EN: He's got just as much a chance of winning bank night as the next guy.ES: Tendrá tanta oportunidad de pagar a la banca nocturna como el siguiente tipo.
- EN: Oh, bank night. Giving any dishes away?ES: - Noche bancaria. ¿Regalan platos?
- EN: # poor me, poor you # poor me, poor you # you lived your whole life through # # and yet you never knew # that Wednesday night is bank night # # poor you, poor me # poor us, poor weES: ♪ Pobre de mí y pobre de ti ♪ ♪ Pobre de mí y pobre de ti ♪ ♪ Viviste toda tu vida sin nunca saber ♪
- EN: This is like bank night.ES: - ¡Esto parece un banco nocturno!
- EN: And when they come through there and open those doors, bank night.ES: Y cuando llegan hasta aquí y abren esas puertas, la banca.
- EN: Well, sir, at the moment I have in my pocket exactly 34 dollars and... and a coupon for a bank night at a Lake Placid movie.ID: Itu, pak, saat ini aku ada di sakuku persisnya $34 dan... dan kupon buat sebuah undian di bioskop Danau Placid.
- EN: I don't know what's playing, but I know it's bank night, so maybe we can pick up a little money.ID: Aku tidak tahu apa yang sedang diputar, tapi aku tahu malam ini Bank buka Jadi mungkin kita bisa mengambil sedikit uang.
- EN: Standard Chartered bank nightTE: రోజువారీ బ్యాంకు నిఫ్టీ చార్టు
- EN: Tell her it was bank night.ES: Dígale que los ha ganado al póker.
- EN: Ah, don't fall for it, suckers. It's bank night!ES: Ni caso, es un mentiroso.ID: - Ah, jangan dibohongi, bodoh.
- EN: I hear old Uncle Cyrus's ghost is holding bank night.ES: He oído que el fantasma del tío Cyrus irá esta noche al banco.
- EN: ♪ This always happens when they have bank night ♪ES: Siempre sucede cuando tienen noche de premios
- EN: ♪ This bank night is beating them down ♪ES: Esta noche de premios está acabando con ellos
- EN: When's bank night?ES: ¿Cuándo es la noche de los presupuestos?
- EN: He's got just as much a chance of winning bank night as the next guy.ES: Tendrá tanta oportunidad de pagar a la banca nocturna como el siguiente tipo.
- EN: Oh, bank night. Giving any dishes away?ES: - Noche bancaria. ¿Regalan platos?
- EN: # poor me, poor you # poor me, poor you # you lived your whole life through # # and yet you never knew # that Wednesday night is bank night # # poor you, poor me # poor us, poor weES: ♪ Pobre de mí y pobre de ti ♪ ♪ Pobre de mí y pobre de ti ♪ ♪ Viviste toda tu vida sin nunca saber ♪
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