There is a joke in English that when you say something is cheap, you don’t simply say “It’s cheap”, but “It will not break your bank”, which means it will not make you bankrupt or ruin your family. The implication is that it is very cheap. At least it is not expensive, and the price is affordable for ordinary people. It is not mentioned in the video, but the Japanese part written in the PPT is “shopping spree to the point of bankruptcy”, which means the same thing. Today we will talk about this word.
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