odds : Idioms & Phrases


At odds

  • adjective satellite in disagreement
    conflicting; self-contradictory; contradictory.
    • the figures are at odds with our findings
    • contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley
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  • in dispute; at variance. "These squires at odds did fall." Spenser. "He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds." Shak.
Webster 1913

betting odds

  • noun the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another
    odds.
    • he offered odds of two to one
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by all odds

  • adverb without question and beyond doubt
    decidedly; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably; definitely.
    • it was decidedly too expensive
    • she told him off in spades
    • by all odds they should win
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It is odds

  • it is probable. Obs. = "odds are" Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1913

Odds and ends

  • noun a motley assortment of things
    hotchpotch; farrago; ragbag; mingle-mangle; oddments; hodgepodge; omnium-gatherum; melange; gallimaufry; mishmash.
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  • that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.
Webster 1913

odds-maker

  • noun someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)
    handicapper.
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odds-on

  • adjective satellite having a better than even chance of success
    • the odds-on favorite
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