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even money
noun
- the equal sum staked by each bettor.
- equal odds in a wager:
It's even money that the home team will win.
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- even-money adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of even money1
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Idioms and Phrases
Equal odds that something will occur, as in It's even money that he'll get the contract . The term comes from gambling, where it signifies equal odds in a bet. [Late 1800s]Discover More
Example Sentences
And to bet even money on a 2-to-1 favorite, he would walk quite a distance and stay quite a while.
Geneticists believe there is an even-money chance that William and Kate's baby could be born with red hair.
For they thought if only Casey could get a whack at that, They'd put up even money with Casey at the bat.
Her heirs take her separate estate; even money received by her husband on her account.
But surely in some cases, not even money could procure such perfection of detailI began.
Not even money-necessity was able to overcome me on a couple of occasions when perhaps I ought to have allowed it to succeed.
"Even money on the little fellow," sang out a voice with the flat twang of a banjo.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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