lay a wager

1. see under lay odds.

Example Sentences

I will lay a wager that these two states will have better budgets and better economic growth over the next 10 years than either IL or CT, which may well be bankrupt.

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Finals, to lay a wager on which arcing shot, improbable steal or rebound would turn this game, was to ensure you’d go flat broke.

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And then I overheard her say, “Look, let’s make the wager. The only way to find out what we honestly believe, and not just what we wish we believe, is to lay a wager.”

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True, you cannot well lay a wager about Athelstan or Edred, who have been dead a considerable time, something, in fact, a little under a thousand years,—and they never played things low down for “records” or took sordid cheques or shared in “gate-money”; but they are still interesting, and made things so lively in their days that some of their doings have been handed down through ten centuries—and that is a kind of “record” in itself!

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"Why, thou art a tight little rogue," said the chimney sweep, smiling grimly through his soot, "and could run briskly up a chimney, I lay a wager.—Come, give us thy hand, and say thou wilt go with us."

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Related Words

• gamble 
• put up 
• speculate