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bet a dollar to a doughnut
語源
Possibly adapted from "bet dollars to buttons" and "bet dollars to dumplings" that appeared in the 1880s, meaning "to feel almost certain" because the dollars are bet against something nearly worthless and perhaps shaped like a zero.[1]
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bet a dollar to a doughnut (三人称単数 現在形 bets a dollar to a doughnut, 現在分詞 betting a dollar to a doughnut, 過去形および過去分詞形 bet a dollar to a doughnut)
- (figuratively, mildly humorous) To declare with confidence.
- 1917, Walter Alleyne Ireland, Beating 'em to it: Or, The Sultan and the Sausages:
- There's places where a dago-dazzler doesn't cut much ice, but it was dollars to doughnuts that the Sultan'd have a kindly feeling for it when I had Mungo explain that it was from the President of the U. S. A., telling him to treat his Uncle Phineas good and white, and he'd do the same by him some day.
- 1988 April 25, John F. Burns, "Canada Losing Patience With U.S. on Acid Rain," New York Times (retrieved 25 April 2015):
- 2010 Sep. 13, Red Shannon, "The Greatest Athlete Who Never Was," Bleacher Report (retrieved 25 April 2015):
- I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut Usain Bolt is not the fastest human on the planet.
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