odds : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite in disagreement
  conflicting; self-contradictory; contradictory.
  
  • the figures are at odds with our findings
  • contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley

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• in dispute; at variance. "These squires at odds did fall." Spenser. "He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds." Shak.

Webster 1913

• noun the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another
  odds.
  
  • he offered odds of two to one

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• adverb without question and beyond doubt
  decidedly; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably; definitely.
  
  • it was decidedly too expensive
  • she told him off in spades
  • by all odds they should win

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• it is probable. Obs. = "odds are" Jer. Taylor.

Webster 1913

• noun a motley assortment of things
  hotchpotch; farrago; ragbag; mingle-mangle; oddments; hodgepodge; omnium-gatherum; melange; gallimaufry; mishmash.
  

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• that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.

Webster 1913

• noun someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)
  handicapper.
  

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• adjective satellite having a better than even chance of success
  
  • the odds-on favorite

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