short odds
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Daniel made big bets, at short odds, on songs qualifying.
From BBC • May 11, 2023
Anybody want to take those short odds on a first Dodgers title since 1988?
From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2017
"We have won 60-something races in a row and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put pretty short odds on us winning the next race," Bond said.
From Reuters • Mar. 4, 2016
Those are remarkably short odds considering all that can go awry in a season.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2015
Meadows began to play inner planet combinations that occasionally paid, though at short odds.
From Fee of the Frontier by Fyfe, Horace Brown
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