best bet
noun
: safest or most reliable course of action : surest means to a desired end : most advantageous approach : most satisfactory choice
the pilot's best bet was to make an emergency landing
the best bet for stabilizing the national economy
Word History
First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
- shoer
- shoers
- shoes
- shoes and stockings
- shoeshine
- shoeshines
- shoeshops
- shoespoon
- shoestring
- shoestring catch
- shoestring district
- shoestring fern
- shoestring fungus
- shoestring potato
- shoestring potatoes
- shoestring root rot
- shoestring sand
- shoestring sandstone
- shoestring tackle
- shoestringer
- shoestringest
- shoestrings
- shoetrees
- shofar
- shofars