单词 | to bet a cookie |
释义 | > as lemmasto bet a cookie P1. North American colloquial. to bet a cookie: to be absolutely confident of something. Cf. to bet a big apple at Big Apple n. 1. ΚΠ 1838 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 30 May If I wouldn't ha' bet a cookey that every soul on you had been carried over the falls! 1870 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Sketches 209 He lost every hoof and hide, I'll bet a cookey! 1967 C. Philbrook Ollie's Team & Baseball Computer iv. 48 Ollie felt sure of one thing. He bet a cookie that the computer would put him on the pitcher's mound. 1992 S. King Dolores Claiborne (1993) 341 I could hear em roarin off toward town—and that goddam bar that opened there year before last, I'll bet a cookie. < as lemmas |
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