All bets are off - (USA) If all bets are off, then agreements that have been made no longer apply.
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Bet the farm - If you bet the farm, you risk everything on something you think will succeed.
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Bet the ranch - (USA) If you bet the ranch, you risk everything on something you think will succeed.
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Bet your bottom dollar - (USA) If you can bet your bottom dollar on something, you can be absolutely sure about it.
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Hedge your bets - If you hedge your bets, you don't risk everything on one opportunity, but try more than one thing.
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Make bets in a burning house - (USA) If people are making bets in a burning house, they are engaged in futile activity while serious problems around them are getting worse.
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Safe bet - A proposition that is a safe bet doesn't have any risks attached.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Prob. from OE. abet, abetting, OF. abet, fr. abeter, to excite, incite. See Abet
In literature:
I'll bet he owns a mine down here somewhere.
"Across the Mesa" by Jarvis Hall
I bet we hiked up to Brewster's Centre a dozen times before Friday.
"Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels" by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
I'll bet you're every day of that.
"Brand Blotters" by William MacLeod Raine
You bet, if he works it right.
"Desert Dust" by Edwin L. Sabin
Didn't you hear me bet Max that I'd go back?
"Starman's Quest" by Robert Silverberg
I'll bet they've let all the sets at their end get out of order.
"Eight Keys to Eden" by Mark Irvin Clifton
After the cards have been dealt the betting before the draw begins.
"Round Games with Cards" by W. H. Peel
Will you bet, stranger?
"The Quadroon" by Mayne Reid
I'll bet you were never in a fish cannery before in your life.
"El Diablo" by Brayton Norton
You wait, I fry um an' I bet you t'ink dat de bes' meat you ever eat.
"Connie Morgan in the Fur Country" by James B. Hendryx
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In poetry:
To such extremes were I and Bet
Perpetually driven,
We quarrell'd every time we met,
To kiss, and be forgiven.
"Epigram On The Author And Eliza Frequently Disffering In Opinion" by Sir John Carr
For she staked her all on conquest
Of the voluptuous host,
With society's devotees
Bet high, played long and lost.
"Ida" by Samuel Alfred Beadle
I sez to Mandy, sure, sez I,
I'll bet thet air patch o' rye
Thet he'll squash 'em by-and-by,
And he did, by cricket!
"Ezra on the Strike" by Ezra Pound
Says I "D'jer ever travel, Dan?"
"You bet I ain't!" says he;
"I tell you what! the place I've got
Is good enough fer me!"
"The Village Oracle" by Joseph C Lincoln
Says I, "D'jer ever read it, Dan?"
"You bet I ain't!" says he;
"And when I do; well, I tell you,
I'll let you know, by gee!"
"The Village Oracle" by Joseph C Lincoln
My sunshine Bet, she made her choice—
A good man he, and true;
And 'neath my fond contented eyes
Their pretty courtship grew.
"The Six Sorrows" by Dora Sigerson Shorter
In news:
Two years ago, an options trader bet big on the super-elite condos at the then-new Elysian Tower.
This week his bet paid off, though not quite as handsomely as he had hoped.
BET Networks, a division of Viacom, is now using Motorola's high-definition MPEG-4/AVC encoding for delivery of its programming in HD.
Brees vs Manning a good bet to entertain .
Hollywood Casino bets even non-gamblers will be entertained .
Scuffle doesn't entirely mar BET Awards.
Performances by Sean Combs ("P. Diddy"), 50 Cent and 2 Chainz not entirely overshadowed by scuffle between Rick Ross, Young Jeezy And G-Unit Crews at BET Hip-Hop Awards.
If you were going to imagine what OPI's first-ever short film would be, we're betting a dance battle with a pedicured horse wouldn't be the first thing that came to mind.
What the Fed's Historic Bet Means for You.
Bet you weren't no Rimbaud.
Dow puts a big bet on ethylene manufacturing.
Through The Years At the start of 2010 Whitney attend the BET Honors.
We're willing to bet most eyebrows aren't half as talented as these.
The Best Bet The Armory Show is usually about making careers.
I bet you don't know that librarians have, right from the start, been at the forefront of the digital information age.
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In science:
In some sense, here the methodology is reversed, betting first of a ”very non commutative” model and trying to guess a method to go down to low energy.
It is the ambiguity. (But only three generations)
My bet is to link it to a preferred kind of metrics, with a preferred set of coordinate systems.
It is the ambiguity. (But only three generations)
It is a safe bet— backed by the sd experience —that the pf results will become as satisfactory as the f p ones.
Spectroscopy with random and displaced random ensembles
Informally, if one considers two players1 : one betting (a|b) will hold, and the other it will not, if in a random experiment (dice toss, coin flip) b doesn’t hold, the game is drawn.
The temporal calculus of conditional objects and conditional events
Now, we should allow the players to repeat their bets.
The temporal calculus of conditional objects and conditional events
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