break the bank vs decrease

break the bank

verb
  • To exhaust one's financial resources. 

  • At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid. 

decrease

noun
  • A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting). 

  • An amount by which a quantity is decreased. 

verb
  • Of a quantity, to become smaller. 

  • To make (a quantity) smaller. 

How often have the words break the bank and decrease occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )