词汇 | you can bet your bottom dollar |
词源 | you can bet your bottom dollar. Originating out West in about 1857, these words, meaning to bet one’s last dollar or money, referred originally to the last silver dollar in a stack or hoard of coins and came eventually to mean to bet the last of one’s resources. |
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