| 单词 | one's bottom dollar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's bottom dollar P9. Originally and chiefly U.S. one's bottom dollar: one's last dollar, esp. in to bet one's bottom dollar, expressing certainty or assurance that something is the case or will happen. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > one's last dollar bottom dollar1856 1856 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Independent Republican 10 Sept. 1/7 ‘Well, darn your picture,’ said he, ‘if I ain't awful glad to see you. I'm goin' to vote for you—you can bet your bottom dollar on that! You made a furst-rate President, and I know you'll do for Governor!’ 1857 San Francisco Call 24 Jan. 4/1 Sometimes, however, luck will run against him, and..he ‘slips up for his bottom dollar’. 1866 Congress. Globe Mar. 1474/1 His opinion is that a State can go out of the Union and he is willing to bet his bottom dollar on his judgment. 1904 W. N. Harben Georgians v. 43 You bet yore bottom dollar I'm open to criticism myself. 1958 Dissent 5 i. 80 And I'd bet my bottom dollar that Negro hipsters, among themselves, often put down the whites. 2005 Trav. Afr. Autumn 32/2 I would have bet my bottom dollar that on the other side of the frontline..the rebels were drinking their fair share of the same beer. < as lemmas |
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