| 单词 | to buy money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto buy money P7. Horse Racing slang. to buy money: to bet (heavily) at short odds on a favourite. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)] > type of betting run or throw a levant1714 levant1797 to pound it1819 field1860 to go for the gloves1861 to buy money1906 plunge1939 to bet like the Watsons1949 (to bet (etc.)) on the nose1951 1860 Bell's Life in London 29 July 4/4 The favourites, it will be seen, were successful in every race, although from the odds laid it amounted almost to ‘buying money’. 1906 A. C. Fox-Davies Dangerville Inheritance vii. 99 The public had left off buying money, and the wagering had become slack. 1928 Daily Express 12 July 12/2 Backers..had to buy money over On Avon and Rainbow Bridge. 2019 Racing Post (Nexis) 5 June 12 Anyone who thought they were buying money on..Locker Room Talk would have been worried down the back straight after the short-priced favourite jumped markedly to his right and was unable to get True Romance off the bridle. < as lemmas |
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