lay a wager
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I lay a wager I will get a smile from her.'
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Emma Marshall
"You may lay a wager on that," replied Marek.
From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Henryk Sienkiewicz
“And I’ll lay a wager you fellows started the ball rolling and Beverly had to brace up and stop it,” he nodded.
From A Dixie School Girl by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
I’ll lay a wager this is the spot where they live when they’re at home and go yowling about.”
From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn
"An I was still shrewder," says I, "I'd trust a surmise an' lay a wager that I was right."
From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Norman Duncan
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