| 单词 | on a gamble |
| 释义 | > as lemmason a gamble Chiefly U.S. on a gamble: as a venture or undertaking unavoidably involving an element of risk and uncertainty; trusting to luck. ΚΠ 1916 Creating Shipping Board (U.S. Senate Comm. on Commerce) 53 There are lots of them going into it on a gamble. 1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley vi. 68 On a gamble he raised his sombrero. 2011 M. Swann Foreigners xxii. 206 She could do it on a gamble, hoping to get a job tonight, but that was really crazy. < as lemmas |
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