| 词汇 | the man who broke the bank at monte carlo |
| 词源 | the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. Fabled in sto- ry and song is the man behind this phrase, Englishman Joseph Hobson Jagger, who in 1886 noticed that one of the roulette wheels at Monte Carlo wasn’t functioning properly and bet on numbers that were appearing more often than they should have in mathematical probability. Jagger won more than 2 million francs in one week and became world famous. |
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