| 词汇 | lay odds |
| 释义 | lay odds1. To offer a bet with favorable odds to other bettors. Bookmakers are laying odds that the company's new smartphone outsells its competitors 2:1. 2. To assert complete certainty about something. I'll lay odds that Jeremy tries to skip out on paying me back for dinner. lay oddsMake a bet on terms favorable to the other party, as in I'll lay odds that it will rain before the week is out. [c. 1600] The closely related lay a wager means "make a bet," as in He laid a wager that Don would be late. [c. 1300] lay (or give) odds1 offer a bet with odds favourable to the other person betting. 2 be very sure about something.The opposite of lay odds in sense 1 is take odds which means ‘offer a bet with odds unfavourable to the other person betting’. |
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