bank holiday
(UK, Ireland) A weekday, often a Monday, on which most businesses are closed, and granted to workers as a national holiday.
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Returning from the Bank Holiday Monday hiatus for Wednesday Evening Training from 5.45pm.🥊 #TMKAFamily #Maulden #Silsoe #kickboxing #WeAllRiseTogether
It still holds up as a thoroughly entertaining movie after all these years, and that's to the credit of all concerned. Little me first saw this one rainy Bank Holiday and thought it was wonderful. The opinion of big m…
TV presenter Ant McPartlin was back on home turf in Newcastle over Bank Holiday and crammed a lot inh
Police were sent to Healey Nab during Bank Holiday Monday after reports of illegally modified off-road bikes being driven at pedestrians and mountain bikers trying to enjoy the trails 🚲
Post bank holiday blues maybe, even tho it's wednesday now?
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(UK, Ireland) A weekday, often a Monday, on which most businesses are closed, and granted to workers as a national holiday.
On a bank holiday weekend.
“Returning from the Bank Holiday Monday hiatus for Wednesday Evening Training from 5.45pm.🥊 #TMKAFamily #Maulden #Silsoe #kickboxing #WeAllRiseTogether”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It still holds up as a thoroughly entertaining movie after all these years, and that's to the credit of all concerned. Little me first saw this one rainy Bank Holiday and thought it was wonderful. The opinion of big me hasn't changed.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“TV presenter Ant McPartlin was back on home turf in Newcastle over Bank Holiday and crammed a lot inh”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Police were sent to Healey Nab during Bank Holiday Monday after reports of illegally modified off-road bikes being driven at pedestrians and mountain bikers trying to enjoy the trails 🚲”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Post bank holiday blues maybe, even tho it's wednesday now?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(euphemism) A closure of banks in a jurisdiction to curtail or prevent a bank run.
On a bank holiday weekend.
“My silly little bank holiday off xx”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Tuesday (after a bank holiday)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Good morning from sunny south York 🤗 hope you’re all well and have had a great bank holiday weekend 😊 I am tasked with the supermarket shopping 😉 anything could happen 🫣 Have a great day everyone #OriginalRollCall”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Completed: major engineering work during the Early May Bank Holiday weekend”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I resisted the urge to work over the bank holiday, when I absolutely needed to rest instead. Please clap”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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