bet you dollars to doughnuts Idiom
Dollars for doughnuts
(USA) If something is dollars for doughnuts, it is a sure bet or certainty.
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dollars to doughnuts, it's It's a virtual certainty, as in
It's dollars to doughnuts that the team will make the playoffs. This metaphoric term pits dollars against doughnuts as in a bet. [Colloquial; late 1800s]
bet you dollars to doughnuts
I assure you (that article will happen, with so abundant aplomb that I would bet money adjoin article beneath valuable). I absent my umbrella, so I bet you dollars to doughnuts that it rains tomorrow! Oh, I bet you dollars to doughnuts that Kevin will be backward tonight—he's never on time!Learn more: bet, dollar, doughnutbet someone dollars to doughnuts
Fig. to bet article of amount adjoin article account appreciably less. I bet you dollars to doughnuts that she is on time. He bet me dollars to doughnuts that it would snow today.Learn more: bet, dollar, doughnutbet addition dollars to doughnuts
tv. to bet article of amount adjoin article account appreciably less. I bet you dollars to doughnuts that she is on time. Learn more: bet, dollar, doughnut, someone