odds-on
/ɒdzˈɒn
/adjective
1(Especially of a horse) rated as more likely than evens to win: the odds-on favourite...
- Well, Germany is the odds-on favorite to win tomorrow's World Cup Quarter Final in Seoul, but an ambitious American team feels it has nothing to lose.
- Mutharika is seen as the odds-on favourite to win the presidency, mainly because the opposition has been unable to unite behind a single candidate.
- They came to Portlaoise as odds-on favourites to win and had to produce the goods.
1.1Very likely to happen or succeed: it seemed odds-on that Jones would add another century to his 157...
- The mare is expected to start odds-on today and those connected with the principal opposition are under no illusions as to the task facing them.
- The Cobblers would certainly be odds-on to complete the promotion that most pundits predicted back in August.
- But the Irishman believes two-time Gold Cup winner Best Mate, who is odds-on for the hat-trick, is better than ever this year.
Rhymes
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in
- get (or keep) the show on the road
- get (or lay)one's hands on
- get (or pull) one's finger out
- get (or put) someone's back up
- get (or receive) one's just deserts
- get (or sink) one's teeth into
- get (or start) off on the right (or wrong) foot
- get (or stick) the knife into (or in) someone
- get (or take) a rise out of
- get (or take or have) the bit between (or in) one's teeth
- get (or take or have) the measure of
- get out
- get out of
- get out of bed on the wrong side (or get up on the wrong side of the bed)
- (get) out of my sight!
- get out of someone's face
- get outside of
- get over
- get over oneself