favor bank

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A notional bank where favors (acts of goodwill in a relationship) are tallied up.
    — “You ever hear of the Favor Bank?” “The Favor Bank? No.” “Well, everything in this building, everything in the criminal justice system in New York”—New Yawk—“operates on favors. Everybody does favors for everybody else. Every chance they get, they make deposits in the Favor Bank.[…]

词源

Popularized in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987).
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