five will get you ten
phraseEtymology Betting parlance for even odds, i.e. betting five pounds (dollars, etc.) should win you ten.
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Idiomatic I strongly believe.
- Five will get you ten that your sheet will have an editorial on the Orchard case Sunday, and what will it say?1948, Rex Stout, And Be a Villain:
- Five will get you ten that he's either gone or dead by midnight Sunday.1957, Clyde Brion Davis, Unholy Uproar:
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- She has a nice strong tone that falters just a bit in the upper ranges; five'll get you ten that problem clears up as soon as [she] gets completely comfortable with performing publicly.1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:
- As it is I'm going to be in big trouble financially if I lose my job and five will get you ten the bastards will try to drum me out.2003, F. Winston Pate, Serenity: