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单词 play the percentages (or the percentage game)
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play the percentages (or the percentage game)

informal Choose a safe and methodical course of action when calculating the odds in favour of success: Labour has been content to play the percentage game, keeping quiet when possible instead of a bright new era we can expect a diet of pragmatism and playing the percentages...
  • I'm quite a percentage kind of person and I play the percentages in pretty much everything I do.
  • Not for him playing the percentages, patting the ball round and favouring the cautious above the cavalier.
  • Of course, not many people play the percentages as well as that so the casino still makes a nice profit at blackjack.
Referring to the calculated percentage of success from statistics
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