bet a dollar to a doughnut
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bet a dollar to a doughnut
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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 the number zero.
verb bets a dollar to a doughnut · betting a dollar to a doughnut · bet a dollar to a doughnut · bet a dollar to a donut · bet dollars to doughnuts
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To declare with confidence.
I bet a dollar to a doughnut that fellow Lopez sold us out.
Similar: a pound to a penny, bet a dollar to a dime, bet one's boots, bet one's bottom dollar, bet the farm, take to the bank, Lombard Street to a China orange, wager a dollar to a doughnut
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