ficient funds" simply means enough money. "To take over" a bank or other business is to buy or take control of it. Tell them to bring their shares over here and I will pay them 50 cents on the dollar. "Shares" are another word for a stock or bond, and if you are willing to accept only "50 cents on the dollar," it is probably because you are worried you’ll never get the true value back. You never miss a trick, do you, Potter? George’s way of telling Potter that he is tired of Potter always taking advantage of people’s fear and desperation. You’re thinking of this place all wrong, as if I had the money back in a safe. Your money is in Joe’s house, and the Kennedy house… A reference to "safe-deposit boxes," where customers keep their own valuable items, literally within the bank. This is George’s way of telling people that the money of the Build and Loan is safe, but not immediately available. What are you going to do? Foreclose on them? "To foreclose" is to take legal possession of a house if the owners can not make their loan payments. I got 242 dollars! 242 dollars isn’t going to break anybody. Here, "to break" someone is to cause them to lose all their money. If Potter gets a hold of the Building and Loan, they’ll never be another decent house built in this town. "Decent" is a useful adjective meaning good, respectable, etc. He’s after us…because were cutting in on his business. That’s why! In the Capitalist market, "to cut in on" another company’s business is to take business away from them by competing strongly. He wants to keep you living in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. George’s passionate explanation for why it is important that the Building and Loan survive, in order to offer an alternative to Potter. Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken down shack? Anything that is "broken down" is in very bad condition. In this case, a "shack" is most likely a tiny and dirty one room apartment. He’s picking up some bargain! A "bargain" is a very good buy or value. We can get through this all right. "To get through" a crisis is to survive it. Here’s $2,000! This will tide us over until the bank reopens. "To tide over" a person until a later time is to help them survive. $20! Now you’re talking! Thanks, Ed. A great and still used expression which means "Now you are saying things that I like!" I can get along with $20 all right. In this case, "to get along" means to survive OK. 5-4-3-2-1 Bingo! A silly and dated word that a person will scream when time runs out. We’re gonna make it! They’ll never close us up today! If banks could stay open without running out of money, then the government would not close them down. We still have 2 bucks left! A very common
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