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Idiom

bottom dollar

Meaning

The last of one's money; all of one's money.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I bet my bottom dollar that he will arrive late.”

“She was so sure the team would win that she bet her bottom dollar on them.”

“He was willing to bet his bottom dollar that the antique painting was authentic, despite the doubts expressed by the skeptical art experts.”

Examples

simple

“I bet my bottom dollar that he will arrive late.”

contextual

“She was so sure the team would win that she bet her bottom dollar on them.”

complex

“He was willing to bet his bottom dollar that the antique painting was authentic, despite the doubts expressed by the skeptical art experts.”

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