释义 |
nine times out of tenOn nearly every occasion: nine times out of ten his customers will return even more satisfied...- It does not disguise the fact, however, that nine times out of ten, I am sitting in the shadows nearly wetting myself with fear over the chance that I might be discovered by a shambling madman wielding a garden trowel.
- We had the game, shouldn't have let them in for that goal, and nine times out of ten, we wouldn't have got another chance.
- Maybe it's their dark, brooding eyes, or their full lips, or their bravado - but there is no coincidence that the boys I make eyes with across the bar are, nine times out of ten, from South America.
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