10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHAT'S THE ODDS?»
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what's the odds? in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
what's the odds? and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Publisher: The Metropolitan printing company Publication date: 1903 Subjects: Horse racing Book-making (Betting) Games / Gambling / Track Betting Nature / Animals Nature / Horses Pets / Horses / General Sports
Joseph Frederick Ullman, 2009
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
[In this phrase, and what's the odds below, odds simply means 'difference'.] an
oddball (inf) a person who behaves in a strange way: A lot of people look on me
as a bit of an oddball but I don 't care. [Originally US.] odd man out/odd one out 1
a ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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What's
the Odds? Or,
the Dumb Jockey of Jeddington
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
The Observer, 7th April 2002 - over the odds more than is expected; more than is
tolerable UK, 1922 • [T]hey were on a fantastic bonus and over the odds take-
home pay. — The Sweeney, p. 48, 1976 - what's the odds? what's the difference?
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
[In this phrase, and what's the odds below, odds simply means 'difference'.] an
oddball (in/) a person who behaves in a strange way: A lot of people look on me
as a bit of an oddball but I don 't care. [Originally US.] odd man out/odd one out 1
a ...
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A Concordance to
the Poems of Robert Browning
717.39 R. and B. 4.875 "Or Proxima Civitas, what's the odds of name ... 742.70 R.
and B. 5.1278 So, to the last, greed found itself at odds 850.61 R. and B. 10.860
Among those hoar-haired, shrunk-shanked odds and ends 868.10 R. and B.
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The Pirate Primer: Mastering
the Language of Swashbucklers ...
what's the situation?; what's going on?; what are you up to? “You're big enough
and wild enough and as likely a cut-throat as another—what's the lay?” (
Abnegation Mings, Black Bartlemy's Treasure 30) what's the odds? [wharrt/whorrt
is\be t' ...
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... that makes no odds. odds and ends/sods small objects of different kinds After
wefinished clearing out there were various odds and ends left over. what's the
odds? it's not important I didn 't get through the exam this time but what's the odds
?
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
North American it makes no odds it does not matter. informal, chiefly British This
phrase and what's the odds below come from an earlier use of odds to mean '
difference in advantage or effect'. lay (orgive) odds offer a bet with odds
favourable ...
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The Cruise of
the Breadwinner
What's the odds? That's right. What's the odds? What's it matter? What's it matter
now?” He furiously threw his cigarette packet and matches across to the German.
They lay on the German's chest. He did not pick 50 THE CRUISE OF THE ...