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five will get you ten en · X

Pronunciation

Etymology

Betting parlance for even odds, i.e. betting five pounds (dollars, etc.) should win you ten.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) I strongly believe.
    • Five will get you ten that he's either gone or dead by midnight Sunday. 1957, Clyde Brion Davis, Unholy Uproar:
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:

Synonyms

ten will get you twenty

Translations (4)

hu nyakamat rá (I strongly believe) · hu mérget vehetsz rá (I strongly believe) · hu a nyakam(at) teszem/tenném rá (I strongly believe) · pl założę się (I strongly believe)