| 单词 | dollars to doughnuts |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(it is) dollars to doughnuts c. Colloquial phrases (originally and chiefly U.S.): bottom dollar, see bottom n. and adj. Compounds 3; (it is) dollars to doughnuts (or (it is) dollars to buttons, etc.), (it is) almost assured; a certainty; (like) a million dollars, see million adj. and n. ΚΠ 1884 G. W. Peck Peck's Boss Bk. 130 It is dollars to buttons that..she will be blown through the roof. 1890 Texas Siftings 8 Nov. 6/3 It is dollars to a doughnut..That some one will start a fire. 1904 Boston Herald 8 Aug. 6 It is dollars to cobwebs that every such person will be disappointed. 1904 Utica (N.Y.) Observer 29 June 6 They talk of fire drills;..it is dollars to doughnuts that not an excursion boat in New York harbor ever had one. 1932 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 390/2 It is dollars to doughnuts not a soul will see him. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xiii. 131 If he were seen it was dollars to doughnuts that he would be arrested. < as lemmas |
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