Advertisement
Advertisement
dollars to doughnuts, it's
Idioms and Phrases
It's a virtual certainty, as in It's dollars to doughnuts that the team will make the playoffs . This metaphoric term pits dollars against doughnuts as in a bet. [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
Wachter's views were echoed by William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University's medical school, who told the Post that he would "absolutely not" have a patient like Trump return to work after only three days, adding that "I will bet dollars to doughnuts it's the president and his political aides who are talking about discharge, not his doctors."
“I will bet dollars to doughnuts it’s the president and his political aides who are talking about discharge, not his doctors,” Schaffner added.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse